Shari’ah Council Demands INEC Boss’s immediate removal over Old Genocide Claim

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) in Nigeria has slammed the newly elected Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) chairman, Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan, urging President Tinubu to remove him immediately.

They alleged that the INEC chairman’s write up five years ago. a bombshell 2020 legal brief for the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON)’s report “Nigeria’s Silent Slaughter.” In which he stated that genocide was on going in Nigeria against Christians.

In the brief Amupitan blasted ongoing “pogroms and attacks” on Christians and minorities as straight-up genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, blaming Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, and even state security forces for the bloodshed. He traced it back to the 19th-century Uthman Dan Fodio jihad, warning of a Rwanda-style catastrophe and begging the UN for intervention to save lives.

The SCSN fired back, calling the brief “provocative, bigoted, and factually twisted”, a divisive hit job on Muslims that’s “dangerously inimical” to Nigeria’s peace.

They insist no “Christian genocide” exists; instead, violence in the North is a messy mix of poverty, banditry, and extremism hitting everyone, with Muslims bearing over 90% of casualties per global data.

Labelling Amupitan’s take on the jihad as “malicious distortion” of a noble reform movement, they argue he’s too prejudiced for a neutral election overseer in our diverse nation.

As X erupts with shock and shares, this clash spotlights deep religious fault lines—will Tinubu stand firm, or cave to the outcry for unity ahead of future polls?