By Farooq Kperogi Apparently, in trying to determine if the X handle @joashamupitan (which quickly morphed into @Sundayvibe00 after its pro-...
By Farooq Kperogi
Apparently, in trying to determine if the X handle @joashamupitan (which quickly morphed into @Sundayvibe00 after its pro-APC tweets surfaced) belongs to INEC chairman Professor Joash Amupitan, some Nigerians attempted to log in by using the “forgot password” route.
When you do that, X asks for a username, email, or phone number. People entered the email and phone number listed in Amupitan’s publicly available CV. Once the account was located, X displayed partial recovery identifiers that matched those same details.
To verify further, they tested the phone number through Opay and GTBank transfers. The name that appeared was “Joash Ojo Amupitan.” It can’t get more unimpeachably factual than that. That is fool-proof institutional data tied to BVN-linked banking records.
For additional confirmation, the number was run through Truecaller, where it shows up as “Joash Ojo Amupitan (Prof).” Truecaller is crowd-sourced, but when it aligns with a CV and bank-verified name, the convergence is hard to dismiss.
Nigerians didn’t stop there. They also sent messages to the email address associated with the account, which is listed in his CV and university profile, urging him to resign. That email address has reportedly now been disabled.
At that point, convinced the pro-Tinubu account belonged to him, people began calling and texting the number until it was switched off.
Then they switched tactics. They started sending ₦1 or ₦10 transfers to his Opay and GTB accounts, using the remarks field to tell him to resign.
So now, in a strange twist, public outrage is padding his bank balance. Imagine millions sending token amounts just to deliver a message. His accounts are getting fatter by the day. Call it an inadvertent money-making tragedy, if you like!
At this point, frankly, denying ownership of the account is becoming unbearably embarrassing and eroding the faintest vestige of credibility Amupitan has. It’s like insisting your hands are clean while they are still inside the cookie jar.
Since resignation is unlikely in Nigeria for conflicts of interest, the next sensible step for Amupitan is candor. He should acknowledge his past support for Tinubu as a private citizen and state that he has since shed partisan loyalties as INEC chairman.
It may not be sincere, but it is infinitely better than this current futile attempt to hide behind his finger hoping people can’t see him in plain sight.
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