Some unknown gunmen stormed Godswill Obioma’s residence on Monday night, a registrar of the National Examination Council.
According to Peoples Gazette, the deceased’s wife, Elizabeth Obioma, stated that the assailants killed her husband but did not take anything valuable from the house.
She was quoted as saying, “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything.”
Obioma, who was sobbing uncontrollably, said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, who were lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.
According to reports, Obioma has been facing attempts to depose him as the head of NECO, a prominent examination body run by the Nigerian government.
On 14 May 2020, Obioma, 67, was just one year ago appointed head of NECO. He was born in the southeast, Igbo-dominated region of Nigeria from Abia.
A day after the ruling All Progressive Congress leader Ahmed Gulak was shot dead in Owerri and raised the widespread concern for insecurity.
