The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) on Wednesday called for the immediate removal and prosecution of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Amupitan, declaring that no election conducted under a cloud of compromised integrity can be credible.
This is even as the Islamic organisation rejected any government policies, including the controversial tax reform, capable of imposing unjust hardship on ordinary Nigerians.
These were contained in the welcome address delivered by the President of the Council, Dr Bashir Aliyu Umar, at the opening ceremony of the SCSN
2026 annual pre-Ramadan lecture and general assembly, with the theme, “Nigeria’s future: Faith, justice and leadership”, holding in Abuja, with Islamic scholars and delegates from across the country in attendance.
According to him, the call for Amupitan’s removal was imperative in view of the legal brief he wrote in whi
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