Godswill Obioma, the registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO) is dead. 

The suspected assassination came barely a day after Ahmed Gulak, a top politician of the ruling APC, was gunned down in Owerri, Imo state.

Wife of the late registrar, Elizabeth Obioma told newsmen that killers 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, attacked and strangled him.

Controversy

In a controversial twist, son to the late Registrar, Prince Godswill Obioma countered the murder story, saying that his father died after a brief illness and communicated same to the management of the National Examinations Council.

Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14, 2020. He hailed from Abia state and was until his appointment to head the examination body, the Ebonyi state Resident Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He was a Professor of Education Measurement and Evaluation and a former Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Counci .