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Nwosu, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Nigeria died on 20th October 2024 at 83 years old

IHEDIOHA, OBI, UMAHI, OTTI, SOLUDO, OTHERS PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO LATE PROF. HUMPHREY NWOSU

March 28, 2025

His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, ed other distinguished Igbo leaders and prominent Nigerians to bid farewell to the late Prof. Humphrey Nwobu Nwosu at Orumba North Local Government Area, Anambra State.

Prof. Nwosu, a former Chairman of the now-defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC), conducted the historic June 12, 1993, election, widely regarded as one of the most credible in Nigeria's history. He was laid to rest in his hometown, Ajalli, Orumba North LGA.

The funeral service, held at St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Ajalli in Orumba North Local Government Area, was attended by an array of distinguished personalities, including former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives and former Governor of Imo State, H.E. Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate and former Governor of Anambra State, H.E. Mr. Peter Obi; Governor of Anambra State, H.E. Prof. Charles Soludo; Governor of Abia State, H.E. Dr. Alex Otti; Minister of Works and former Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Umahi; Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Victor Umeh; Chief Emmanuel Okewulonu (Ikeoha); Nze Charles Onwunali, and several other notable figures.

The gathering was a testament to Prof. Nwosu’s enduring legacy in Nigeria’s electoral history and his contributions to democratic governance.

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RIP Prof Humphrey Nwosu

You did your best, but those with selfish interests destroyed what would have been your greatest work

Has anything been named after Humphrey Nwosu the in SE?. If nothing has been named after him, then this gathering was a gathering of hypocrites.



-Kiss the truth!

Nwosu should face his judgment before God for his conspiracy and deliberate move to truncate the fairest and most free election in June 12, 1993.

May his soul rest in peace.
Whether Tinubu immortalizes him or not, he'll always be ed as the only credible INEC chairman Nigeria has ever produced.

Do you really know the full meaning of Nwosu...?

To hell with any coward...

R.I.P MKO, Long live NADECO

Here lies Prof. Humphrey Nwosu—a man who laid low for his country, stood firm in the face of danger, and sacrificed everything for a nation that repaid him with betrayal. Denied honor, cast aside for his tribe, yet his legacy outlives their rejection. Rest in power.

‘ABACHA SCREAMED AT ME, IBB TOLD ME I WAS ON MY OWN’

Nwosu added that Sani Abacha, the chief of defence staff who seized power less than three months after IBB “stepped aside”, also barked at him over the announcement of the results.

“The military then said a committee headed by Abacha should find a solution to the problem. Abacha was in that committee, Murtala Nyako, Aliyu Gusau and David Mark were also in that committee. Then, another sub-committee was created,” he said.

“I told them that there was nothing to meet about that; the law is clear because an election has been conducted and results have been collated, and the only one remaining was that of Taraba, and we have come along with it.

“I told them to allow us to complete the exercise. Abacha screamed at me when he heard this. He told me who do I think I was. He said I was not a member of the national security council and that I went ahead and held an election even after the court had declared it illegal.

“In fact, I was called into a meeting by the national defence and security council and asked if I would release the result without informing the military body. I replied: ‘That is the law. There was no provision for the highest ruling military body to vet the result. The law says the results should be announced at ward, local, state and, finally, headquarters level’.

“I and my national commissioners were summoned to Aso Rock, and Babangida asked what the NEC’s position was on the election. We answered that the NEC should be allowed to conclude the election and announce the result and that we would challenge the letter served by the commissioner of police halting the release of election results. Then Babangida told us, ‘You people are on your own’.

“Then we went to court. The attorney general of the federation should have championed our position, but he did not. It was Bukhari Bello, director of NEC’s Lagos services, who went to the Kaduna court of appeal and filed the papers.” Nwosu added that the military dissolved NEC on June 23 to prevent the court from certifying results of the poll.

“We submitted all the results, including that of Taraba, showing that Abiola won the election. Abiola was represented by K Ajayi, and Tofa was also represented. The court held its first sitting, and Justice Okey Achike was the chairman,” he said.

“He was ready to conclude, and he ordered the Abuja high court to submit all matters relating to the election. All the results were submitted to his court for accelerated hearing and decision [slated] for June 25, 1993.

“When you submit something to the court, it becomes a public document, is it not? All the results were submitted to the court headed by Okey Achike, showing that Abiola won. Abiola knew. When this was to be done on June 25, the military quickly dissolved my commission on June 23.

“I am saying for public record that Abiola won the June 12 election. In all the documents that we submitted, as far back as June 20, 1993.”

https://www.thecable.ng/rewind-the-military-tried-to-stop-me-in-2014-nwosu-said-abiola-won-june-12-election/

Aareonakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has thrown his weight behind clamour in some quarters that former Chairman, National Electoral Commission (NEC), the Late Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, be immortalised.

Adams argued that the late electoral commission boss deserved such recognition, given his role in delivering June 12, 1993 Presidential election, which is adjudged globally as the freest and fairest election conducted in Nigeria’s history.

It would be recalled that the Senate for the second term rejected a motion seeking to immortalise the Late Nwosu as the parliament only agreed to honour his death by observing a minute’s silence and extending condolences to his family.

The Yoruba generalissimo gave this position in a statement issued by his office, a copy of which was made available to TheScrutinyNG on Friday.

He said the then NEC “through having a sincere chairman like Humphrey Nwosu” conducted free and fair election that gave the Late Chief MKO Abiola “the mandate that the Nigerian government then did not install him as president.”

According to Iba Adams, the respect and the glory that Abiola is having today long after his ing is as a result of the honesty displayed by the Prof. Nwosu and the products that worked with him that made it happen, saying that if Abiola could be honoured by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, so also Nwosu deserved to be immortalised as well.

The Yoruba generalissimo said the Federal Government should at least ensure that a monument be named after the Late Prof Nwosu as “a good precedence for other INEC chairmen to be honest when they were being given the position on the basis of organizing elections in Nigeria.”

“It is very important that Prof. Humphrey Nwosu should be recognized, the genesis of having a free and fair or the foundation of having a free and fair June 12, 1993 elections was through having a sincere NEC chairman like Humphrey Nwosu. Humphrey Nwosu conducted free and fair election that gave Aare MKO Abiola the mandate that the Nigerian government then did not install him as president”.

“And the respect and the glory that Aare MKO Abiola is having today is as a result of the honesty displayed by the then NEC chairman and the products that worked with him that made it happen.

“So if Abiola can be honoured by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018, so definitely Humphrey Nwosu has to be immortalised. At least, there should be a monument that they should name after him so that it can be a good precedence for other INEC chairmen to be honest when they were being given the position on the basis of organizing elections in Nigeria,” Iba Adams said.

Adams, therefore, urged the National Assembly to immortalise Nwosu, saying that this became imperative if it wanted a free, fair and credible election in the country.

He said the National Assembly should also make this possible if it wanted people in important positions in the country “to uphold credibility,” describing the Late Nwosu as a great man.

The Yoruba generalissimo, while noting that Nwosu later wrote a book after the election was annulled, to present the true story about the whole incident, urged that nothing must be done to deny him the honour he deserved, warning that should such be done, “his spirit will not be happy with Nigeria.”

This was just as he equally noted that it would amount to selfishness on the side of Yoruba people not to move to immortalise the Late Nwosu, recalling that many Igbo ed the Late Abiola to be immortalised.

Besides, he said countless Igbo people always participated in June 12 programmes, where one of the resolutions remained “that Abiola should be immortalised.”

“For any Yoruba to oppose Prof. Humphrey Nwosu from being immortalised, such would amount to self centeredness. We have to believe in justice, and what is good for the goose is also good for the gander,” he said.

https://thescrutinyng.com/june-12-why-ex-nec-chairman-humphrey-nwosu-should-be-immortalised-gani-adams/

God's honor is what's most important not that of tinted men. Rest well dear great

Racoon:

https://www.thecable.ng/rewind-the-military-tried-to-stop-me-in-2014-nwosu-said-abiola-won-june-12-election/

But he suspended the announcement of the results. That negates everything he said.

gidgiddy:
RIP Prof Humphrey Nwosu

You did your best, but those with selfish interests destroyed what would have been your greatest work

RIP to him. I agree to this.

IBB destroyed what would have been Prof. Nwosu greatest legacy.

May his soul rest in peace.

He did his best on the job despite the risks to his life and family. Those asking why he didn't didn't announce the results should go and argue and fight with armed soldiers and see the outcome

Humphrey Nwosu was among the many who fought for the June 12 cause but they are being denied their place in history.

Terrible country with terrible history and terrible humanity. All these shenanigans is just to massage ethno-regional supremacy ego.
Jee nkeoma Prof Humphrey Nwosu.

TimeManager:
Has anything been named after Humphrey Nwosu the in SE?. If nothing has been named after him, then this gathering was a gathering of hypocrites.

-Kiss the truth!

A section of the Orumba North LGA (his LGA) is named after him.

Rest well.

Rest In Peace Hero of Democracy

RIP

Elections in Nigeria will you

Good

After death comes judgement.

Let's live right.

JAWBONE:
Rest In Peace Hero of Democracy

Hero of democracy?

Na tribalism go finish you Ipobidients

The way y'all always try to rewrite history is really sickening.

LagosOrigin:
get out of here if you have anything sensible to say.

Professor Nwosu is a hero and died a hero. If you don't like it, go and fight with him in the great beyond.

Simon Ekpa, Nnamdi Kanu and Evans are also your heroes so I am not surprised reading this.

Where is Peter obituary He is suppose to be here in black

Traitor and coward

That was afraid to do the right thing until his death

Dey disguise

The man who died a coward.

Peace to the fallen!!!

Nigeria is the only country in the world where people who rig elections (Tinubu) are celebrated as heroes while the people who conducted the freest and fairest elections are considered as villains (Nwosu)

In Nigeria, the person who conducted, supervised, and collated a smooth, free, and fair elections is not worthy of honor, while the person who annulled the same elections is celebrated and even rewarded with N16b.

Yet you say something is not fundamentally wrong with this geographical entity called Nigeria.

TimeManager:
Has anything been named after Humphrey Nwosu the in SE?. If nothing has been named after him, then this gathering was a gathering of hypocrites.
-Kiss the truth!

From the comment

you will know this is a Yoruba Muslim

only interested in worshipping his oppressor Tinubu

TimeManager:
Has anything been named after Humphrey Nwosu the in SE?. If nothing has been named after him, then this gathering was a gathering of hypocrites.



-Kiss the truth!

the guy worked for Nigeria not south east you people are just stupid

Instead of SE senators asking the senate to redraw the gas master plan to circulate gas across the 5 states of the region, they are more interested in a man who has left the world and has gone to stand before his maker.

The senate is useless and should be scrapped. The house of reps is enough! Young people should be pushing for that.

NYSC 🇳🇬
2013 :N19,800 -$124
2022 : N33,000 - $75
2025 : N77,000 - $50

The man who denied MKO presidency.