Professor Humphrey Nwosu, who served as chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), now known as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from 1989 to 1993, has passed away.
Born on October 2, 1941, Nwosu died in a hospital in Virginia, United States.
As the chief electoral officer, Nwosu conducted the landmark June 12, 1993, presidential election, widely hailed as Nigeria’s freest and fairest. This election saw Chief Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party triumph over Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention.
Despite orders from the Ibrahim Babangida military regime to halt the release of results, Nwosu made many of them public before the election was ultimately annulled.
