The Senator Nenadi Usman-led Labour Party, LP, has urged the newly-appointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan (SAN), to prioritize Nigerians as he handles his new national assignment. The party recently revealed that the new INEC chairman has a big responsibility to Nigerians henceforth.
In a press statement shared by Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Tony Akeni, the Labour Party said that Amupitan has a choice to either redeem the country’s democracy or further bury its corpse that Prof. Yakubu Mahmood left behind.
According to Akeni, the new INEC boss has to decide between serving only Tinubu, who appointed him, or the over 230 million Nigerians BAT is supposed to serve as president.
He stated that Amupitan should prove his readiness for his new role by removing Julius Abure and his defunct council members from the commission’s portal.
“He must choose whether to be honoured by more than 230 million Nigerians, who employed President Bola Tinubu, or to serve the unconstitutional wishes and caprices of a single man, Tinubu, who appointed him.
To help him make that choice, Prof. Amupitan will do well to reflect how more than 230 million Nigerians at home and all over the world will forever remember his immediate predecessor, Prof. Yakubu Mahmood.
For the Labour Party, the first all-important litmus test that the new INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, will pass to prove that he has come to serve Nigeria in earnest of his oath of office, is to remove the last trace of Julius Abure and his defunct council members from INEC’s portal.
And replace them with the Nenadi Usman -led council which the statutory NEC of the party has submitted as its executive council in accordance with the Supreme Court’s judgment that the leadership of political parties is strictly the result of the internal decision and processes of parties,” he said.
Emphasizing that Amupitan is now on the radar of the entire world, he noted that the INEC chairman’s actions will not be monitored by Nigerians alone.
Akeni concluded by saying that Nigeria cannot continue to set bad democratic examples that will make the nation a subject of mockery across the globe.
“This also complies with both Nigeria’s and global administrative conventions which forbid leadership vacuum in the management of institutions.
As he steps into the shoes of his departed predecessor, Prof. Joash Amupitan must realize that he is not only on the radar of Nigerians, but the entire civilize world, the West and emerging democracies of the world which look unto Nigeria for good or bad examples,” he added.
