Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Professor Joash Amupitan as new Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), following an exhaustive screening session that lasted about three hours and featured probing questions from lawmakers across party lines.
Amupitan, a distinguished legal scholar and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), pledged sweeping institutional reforms to restore public trust in Nigeria’s electoral system. He vowed to create an ethics and compliance committee and push for the establishment of a long-overdue electoral offences commission to investigate and prosecute electoral crimes.
During his screening, which was broadcast live, senators pressed the nominee on the recurring lapses in the country’s electoral processes, including allegations of compromise by officials, logistical failures, and public mistrust of election results.