With the many challenges confronting Nigeria today, every patriotic citizen ought to exercise great restraint with actions and statements capable of escalating an already volatile situation. The Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) expresses this profound concern with respect to a recent statement credited to the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN), to the effect that the Chairman of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, should resign his appointment, describing him as a “a threat to the credibility of Nigeria’s democratic process.” The Supreme Council for Shari’ah further threatened that “Muslims would neither recognise nor legitimise any election conducted under Amupitan’s leadership,” citing what it described as “serious integrity and neutrality concerns.”
