{"id":2977,"date":"2024-10-24T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:10:22","slug":"2977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/2977\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr NEC Chair, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2978\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-3-1-1-300x162.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-3-1-1-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-3-1-1.jpeg 305w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nwosu<\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>Fmr NEC Chair, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, is dead<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the former chairman of the then National Electoral Commission, NEC, is dead, aged 83 years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Nwosu\u00a0 oversaw the acclaimed 1993 elections, which is still reputed to be the freest and fairest election in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He was appointed in 1989 by the then Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The NEC chairman was innovative in handling his job as the chairman of NEC, now known as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, having introduced the unique the Open Ballot system.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This ensured that the 1993 electoral exercise was largely transparent, free and fair, as the June 12, 1993 election, is adjudged to be the freest and fairest election ever in Nigeria till date.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chief Moshood Abiola, MKO, who flew the flag of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP, defeated Alhaji\u00a0 Bashir Tofa of the defunct National Republican Convention, NRC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the military junta later\u00a0the election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nwosu By Publisher Kindly share: Fmr NEC Chair, Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, is dead Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the former chairman of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[836],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-prof-humphrey-nwosu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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