INEC’s “Forensic Study” on Amupitan: Five Flaws and a Threat to Free Speech

You’ve seen Akpabio admit Amupitan owns the contested account. Yet Amupitan keeps denying it and calls his own investigation "forensic." What a shameful exit. INEC claims it probed its chairman and found no partisan tweets supporting Bola Tinubu. But how can you pass an exam you set, grade, and judge yourself? That’s self-exoneration. Here are five reasons the INEC report falls apart: the edited timestamp excuse; password recovery links to Amupitan’s official CV; absence in the Wayback Machine doesn’t prove nonexistence; locking the account after discovery was damage control, not impersonation; and later fake accounts don’t justify ignoring the original evidence. Worse still, threatening to arrest critics is a SLAPP tactic to silence debate. When an institution moves from denial to criminalization, it usually signals guilt.

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