{"id":77267,"date":"2025-10-23T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77267"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:29:31","slug":"amupitan-arrives-aso-rock-for-swearing-in-as-inec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/amupitan-arrives-aso-rock-for-swearing-in-as-inec-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Amupitan Arrives Aso Rock for Swearing-In as INEC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Joash Amupitan, newly confirmed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday morning for his swearing-in by President Bola Tinubu. The ceremony is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old law professor, confirmed by the Senate on October 16, outlined plans to strengthen INEC\u2019s independence, reform the electoral process, and rebuild public trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must conduct elections where even the loser will congratulate the winner,\u201d he told lawmakers during his screening.<\/p>\n<p>Amupitan, who succeeds Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was nominated by President Tinubu and approved by the National Council of State.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed claims linking him to Tinubu\u2019s 2023 legal team, insisting, \u201cI never appeared before the tribunal or Supreme Court for any of the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to assume duties immediately after the swearing-in ceremony at INEC headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Professor Joash Amupitan, newly confirmed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday morning for his swearing-in by President Bola Tinubu. The ceremony is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. The 58-year-old law professor, confirmed by the Senate on October 16, outlined plans to strengthen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-77267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77269,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77267\/revisions\/77269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}