{"id":77286,"date":"2025-10-23T21:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77286"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:15:16","slug":"safeguard-electoral-integrity-tinubu-charges-new-inec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/safeguard-electoral-integrity-tinubu-charges-new-inec-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguard Electoral Integrity, Tinubu Charges New INEC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has urged the newly appointed INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, to protect the integrity and credibility of Nigeria\u2019s elections, calling transparent polls the foundation of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu administered the oath of office to Amupitan on Thursday at the State House, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the appointment reflected the confidence of both the executive and legislative branches in Amupitan\u2019s competence and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The President noted that Amupitan\u2019s first major test would be the Anambra governorship election in November 2025 and urged him to uphold transparency, inclusivity, and non-violence throughout the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour nomination and confirmation are a testament to your capacity and the confidence reposed in you,\u201d Tinubu said, emphasizing that credible elections are essential to sustaining public trust and democracy in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; President Bola Tinubu has urged the newly appointed INEC Chairman, Professor Joash Amupitan, to protect the integrity and credibility of Nigeria\u2019s elections, calling transparent polls the foundation of democracy. Tinubu administered the oath of office to Amupitan on Thursday at the State House, Abuja. He said the appointment reflected the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77288,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions\/77288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}