INEC Chairman Exonerated: Forensic Probe Exposes ‘Coordinated’ Digital Impersonation Campaign
Fabricated, forensically impossible, and coordinated. INEC’s comprehensive probe has cleared Chairman Joash Amupitan of partisan X posts, exposing a sophisticated digital impersonation operation designed to compromise Nigeria’s electoral integrity.
The Forensic Verdict
Deploying X platform data, Wayback Machine archives, OSINT tools, and independent cybersecurity review, INEC dismantled the viral claim piece by piece:
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The @joashamupitan account—created September 2022—bore zero linkage to Amupitan’s verified emails
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A purported 2026 “Victory is sure” reply appeared 13 minutes before the original post it supposedly answered
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Wayback searches showed no account existence prior to April 2026
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The account was panic-renamed to @sundayvibe00 and slapped with a self-applied “Parody” label the same day screenshots went viral—“an implicit admission” of fraud
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN,
photo credit: INEC
The Network
The probe uncovered seven fake Facebook and Instagram accounts using Amupitan’s identity, signaling a sustained impersonation operation rather than isolated trolling.
The Fallout
With the forensic report forwarded to law enforcement for prosecution under Nigeria’s Cybercrimes Act, INEC warns the public against amplifying unverified screenshots in an era of AI-driven deepfakes and digital manipulation.
Bottom line: The chairman operates zero personal X accounts. The posts were weaponized fiction—and the architects are now in law enforcement’s crosshairs.
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