A former Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, NEC, Professor Humphrey Nwosu had passed on at 83.
He was the chairman of National Electoral Commission NEC, now known as Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, from 1989-1993.
He was Born on October 2, 1941 in Anambra and died on october 24 , 2024 in a hospital in United States of America at the ripe of age of 84 years.
Prof. Nwosu was appointed chairman of the National Electoral Commission in 1989 to conduct the local, state, and national elections that would usher in the Third Republic. In his life time, he had taught political science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He had studied our politics and thought he had answers to some of its inscrutable weaknesses.
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The mission he set for himself and NEC was to conduct a lofty and worthy transition programme and erect democratic structures, which would stand the test of time.
He recommended among other things six political parties, the open ballot system, and an original and revolutionary idea to co-opt the Nigerian media into the electoral process as witnesses and guarantors of integrity and transparency; as it is done in Western democracies.
In July 2024, the House of Representatives acknowledged his role in the nation’s polity and called on President Bola Tinubu to immortalise Prof. Nwosu for conducting the election considered the freest and most credible in post-independence Nigeria. It remains to be seen if the President will heed this request from the House of Representatives.
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