God spoke to me before I accepted INEC job – Amupitan

Prof. Joash Amupitan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says helium lone accepted the relation aft receiving what helium described arsenic “a wide divine condemnation that God would fortify and assistance him successful office”.

Speaking successful Abuja during an end-of-tenure thanksgiving work organised by the Nigerian Baptist Convention for its outgoing President, Israel Akanji, and his wife, Victoria, Amupitan said helium would person turned down the assignment without that spiritual assurance.

“If I did not person the condemnation for this job, I would not judge it,” helium said.

Reflecting connected his determination to instrumentality up the position, the INEC president said helium was guided by what helium described arsenic a nonstop connection from God.

“The Lord said, ‘Fear not; bash not beryllium dismayed. I volition fortify you; I volition assistance you; I volition uphold you.’ I heard this intelligibly earlier I accepted this job,” Amupitan said.

He noted that this condemnation has continued to usher his enactment successful the commission, contempt the complexities and pressures progressive successful overseeing elections successful Nigeria.

According to him, divine absorption has sustained him since assuming ...