Re: Tinubu must sack Amupitan…

Re: Tinubu must sack Amupitan for “genocide” hatchet job against Nigeria

Good afternoon, Sir. I’ve the honour and privilege of being a student of the distinguished Prof. Amupitan for four years (2000-2004), at the Faculty of Law, University of Jos (Unijos). I would have read your write up “The white paper” Backpage of Daily Trust twice, BUT YOU’RE A MUSLIM. That is all I need to qualify your very myopic nonsense. What right did Mohammed Abubakar have to become Inspector General of Police having been indicted by Justice Niki Tobi white paper on the 2001 Sept crisis in Jos, while he served as Commissioner of Police then. Maybe because Amupitan is not Scion of the caliphate. Mtcheeeeeed PATHETIC HYPOCRISY. 0803 613 0733

Dear Professor Suleiman.

Tinubu, out of government, urged foreign intervention on account of mass killing of Christians. He also asked Jonathan to resign for failure to secure Nigerian lives. I doubt very much if Amupitan will be sacked as you requested in your column today. We have a great disaster on our hands; which Trump’s intervention can only worsen.

Incidentally, kindly extend my condolences to the Daily Trust group on the loss of Dan Agbese. I have been reading columnists since 14 in Nigeria, US and Canada.

Nobody writes like Dan. Almighty God will give him perpetual peace.

As for you, I will never stop reading your article on Monday.

Have a great week ahead. Dele Sobowale, Vanguard Media Limited, Apapa

Mall. Suleiman A. Suleiman, I read your article from Daily Trust of 24/11/25. Any Christan and Muslim that practices their religion loyally and faithfully, and lives well has the hope of going to Heaven. Existence of Christianity in the world predates Islam by 622 years. The coming of Islam in Nigeria predates Christianity, when Islam started in the world in 622 AD, it spreaded like wildfire.

The creation of states and local government was and is a good idea. However, sundry insecurity issues had negated and reversed progress. People are leaving the rural areas for cities for security reasons and because of poverty brought about by bad leadership and governance. Danmaigona, C. 0810 580 4321

Re: Tinubu must sack Amupitan for “genocide” hatchet job against Nigeria.

I have just read your article with the title above. I wish to thank you once again for your concern for humanity. 0818 183 3227

In Your Piece on Prof. Joash Amupitan’s Appointment as INEC Chairman, You suggested that he should be sacked by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the dossier he wrote on the alleged genocide on Christians in Nigeria. Alternatively, you opined that he should apologise.

It was the apology (soft landing) that I thought would not work. Do you expect him to say “I am sorry what I wrote was not true, I Only wrote that because that was what my client wanted?” Or do you want him to say “I am sorry if what I wrote had offended you, but I still stand by it?”

How would any Fulani candidate standing for an election against another non-Fulani candidate feel with Professor Joash Amupitan as umpire? The man’s position is untenable. Resignation is the right and honourable step to take. But don’t hold your breath. 0803 311 8404

This is the “A” part of their demand. Once Tinubu accedes to it, then the “B” part will be to replace him with Gumi! Abi? James Soujah Abu

A bitter truth that only those who doesn’t use religious sentiments will understand. Thank you for the write up. Mahdi Ibrahim

Do you see Tinubu as a person you can push around? Amupitan remains with Tinubu till 2031. Kingsley Omokoje

He who go to equity must go with clean hand.  Amb ST Dokore

Only those who believe in the unity and independence of Nigeria as a sovereign nation should be given the position of authority. Alhassan Naseer

If not that I have cautioned myself over the use of foul language l, I would have said “thunder fire you”!! Anyway, for your information, Prof Joash Amupitan will serve 10 years as INEC Chairman. Nothing will happen, this country belongs to all of us!! Ability Chukwuemeka Mbah

Re: “TINUBU MUST SACK AMUPITAN FOR “GENOCIDE” HATCHET JOB AGAINST NIGERIA, in Daily Trust Monday Column of 24 November 2025, was a patriotic national call. In countries where highly placed public officials bother about honour and integrity, Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan should have resigned as INEC Chairman voluntarily, before waiting to be sacked.

As you rightly observed, Amupitan being the author of a chapter entitled “Legal Brief: Genocide in Nigeria” (2020) really betrayed his country in a very reckless manner. It takes a somewhat divisive and unpatriotic Nigerian, in this case, a Law ‘Professor’ for that matter, to co-author such a damning report against his country.

Academic brains like respected media practitioners hardly produce one sided report where those accused are denied fair hearing for the purpose of balancing. As you correctly observed, even the term “genocide” was given a narrow definition by Amiputan and his gang to justify the sinister motive of “Christians Genocide” in Nigeria. Officials of the United States government including President Donald Trump himself may have used the said report as a smokescreen to cover their much deeper motives. Yet, the “hatchet job” offered by Amupitan and Co. handed them the gaslight.

But as you asked president Tinubu to sack the new INEC boss, you seem to be silent on the crucial role of the National Assembly on the issue. The NASS need to investigate this apparent “treasonable” offence by Amupitan and formally request his sack given the huge national embarrassment and security scare it has brought to bear on the country particularly with the unilateral threat of military action by the US president.

A worrying angle is that Amupitan’s so called “legal brief” was clearly motivated by personal or group induced divisive religious agenda. This is evident from the way Boko Haram insurgency, the farmer-herder conflict, the indigene-settler clashes and banditry were falsely lumped together and described as “fingers of the same hand” or the “Islamization agenda” by the “Muslim North”.

Imagine a whole learned Law professor tracing Sharia law in Nigeria to only the renewed move to updated the codes in the early 2000 or Sheikh Usman Danfodio’s Islamic Revivalist Movement of 1804, as is if they marked the very beginning of Islam in Nigeria or West Africa in general.

Me think, many divisive elites in the North Central region are yet to be purged of the “Gideon Orkar” coup mentality which sought to ‘excise’ the Muslim majority Northern Nigeria from the rest of the country. Needless to catalogue “Muslim Genocide” in Nigeria to counteract the current false narrative.

My humble opinion is that as Nigerians, we should own the necessary political and moral courage to secure all citizens and residents, irrespective of race, region and religion. Our leaders must not wait for any foreign power threat based on false narrative and hidden Agenda to take the right decisions.

When did Nigeria, the famed “Giant of Africa” and “Africa and Black Man’s Beacon of Hope” descend so low as to be bullied around by an extra continental entity before responding to our critical leadership and citizenship responsibilities? We must collectively wake up now to be our nation’s best keepers. Garba Isa

Salam. It’s been a while since you wrote an article like this. May God continue to bless you. I advise that you should meet with Dr Faruk. B. B. Faruk of the University of Abuja, so that you two can create a platform. 0803 575 5499

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