INEC Chairman, Amupitan last person I will defend – Bashir Ahmad

Bashir Ahmad, a erstwhile media adjutant to precocious ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has suggested that helium is not defending the president of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Joash Amupitan, amid ongoing contention implicit his alleged past partisanship conduct.

Ahmad made the clarification connected Saturday during an speech connected X with a idiosyncratic identified arsenic @UpTownOfLagos.

The idiosyncratic had questioned Ahmad’s position, asking wherefore helium appeared to beryllium defending what was described arsenic ‘indefensible’.

“Isn’t it bittersweet that adjacent aft this, you’re inactive going further successful your nationalist defence of the present indefensible?,” @UptownOfLagos wrote.

In response, Ahmad stated: “Wait. I americium not defending anything. If anything, the INEC Chairman volition beryllium the past idiosyncratic I volition defend. I americium lone stating the obvious.”

Earlier, Ahmad had directed a query to X’s artificial quality tool, Grok, seeking clarification connected the past of a circumstantial X relationship allegedly linked to Amupitan.

He asked astir the archetypal username associated with an relationship created successful September 2022, which was aboriginal linked to the grip “joashamupitan”.

Grok responded that the relationship was created connected September 6, 2022, with the username “joashamupitan”, and that determination was nary grounds of it being changed to that sanction successful November 2025.

It added that the relationship retained the username until April 10, 2026, ...