NECO Registrar Was Not Assassinated – Family

Contrary to earlier reports, NECO Registrar, Godswill Obioma was not assassinated.

Glamtush reports that the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer National Examinations Council, (NECO) Professor Godswill Obioma was not assassinated but died after a brief illness, his family has stated.

Obioma’s death was announced in a statement on Tuesday by his son, Prince Godswill Obioma II, on behalf of the family.

The younger Obioma revealed that the NECO registrar died on Monday after a brief illness, contrary to the claims that he was killed.

Reports had emerged that gunmen suspected to be assassins killed the NECO registrar on Monday night when they stormed his residence in Minna, the Niger State capital.

His widow, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, was alleged to have told reporters that the assailants killed her husband and left without taking anything.

However, Glamtush gathered that the Registrar slumped in his room and was discovered by his wife and driver.

The duo drove him to the hospital where he was certified dead.

In a message sent to the Director, Human Resource Management in NECO, Mustapha Abdul by son of the late Registrar, Prince Godswill Obioma the 2nd, the family confirmed that the Registrar died after a brief illness.

The message reads: “Dear Sir, this is to formally inform you that my father Prof. Godswill Obioma, the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO passed to eternal glory yesterday 31/5/2021 after a brief illness.

“We request that you kindly notify the Board, Management and the entire staff of the Council of this development. We shall keep you duly informed.”

Professor Obioma, a 67-year-old indigene of Abia State, assumed office as NECO Registrar on May 22, 2020.

He graduated from Alvan Ikoku College of Education in Owerri, Imo State in 1982 and proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State in 1979.