The Presidency has fired back at the African Democratic Congress (ADC) following calls by the party for the resignation of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Joash Amupitan.

President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, said ADC leaders, including Interim National Chairman David Mark, National Secretary Rauf Aregbesola, and Spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi, were not in a position to lecture Amupitan on his duties.

Ajayi described the INEC chairman as a legal scholar at the peak of his academic and professional career, noting that he is a teacher of law, a Professor of Law, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

This comes after Mark and other ADC chieftains held a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, accusing Amupitan of failing in his responsibilities and demanding his removal.

Mark also urged President Tinubu to sack the INEC chairman, insisting he has shown he cannot conduct credible elections in the country.

In a post on X, Ajayi dismissed the ADC’s claims, saying the party was wrongly dragging Amupitan, President Tinubu, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) into its self-inflicted internal crisis.

He wrote, “We all can at least agree that the INEC chairman is at the top of his career academically and professionally – a teacher of law, Professor of law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. What this means is he sure knows what ‘status quo ante bellum’ means.

“Senator David Mark, Mr Peter Obi, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, certainly, can’t teach him what that Latin legal maxim means. It is bad politics for ADC people to make their own internal crisis of choice a problem of Professor Amupitan, that of President Tinubu and APC.”

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