By John Ikani
Godswill Obioma, the registrar of National Examinations Council Authority (NECO) has been assassinated by unknown gunmen.
The suspected assassination came barely a day after Ahmed Gulak, a top politician of the ruling APC and core northerner, was gunned down in Owerri – Nigeria’s Igbo dominated South East region – an incident which was interpreted with ethnic and political colorations.
Wife of the late registrar, Elizabeth Obioma told newsmen that the assassins stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma on Monday Night and strangled him in what she suspected to be an assassination.
“The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Tuesday morning.
Weeping profusely, Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.
Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14, 2020. He hailed from Abia in Nigeria’s Igbo-dominated South-East region.
Peoples Gazette reports that Obioma has been facing attempts to remove him from office as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
Details later…
