The Director General of the National Electoral Institute, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, is dead.
Momoh, who died in Abuja, is expected to be buried in Auchi, Edo State according to Islamic injunction.
The professor of Science, who is from Auchi, Estako West in Edo state, was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University, Ojo, before he was appointed the CEO of the Institute of the Independent National Electoral Commission..
His death threw the academic community into mourning as his colleagues at the University of Ibadan who got the rude shock of his demise described his death as a monumental loss to Nigeria.
He obtained his PhD in Political Theory and started his lecturing career in 1988. He has served on various Boards and scientific committees including those of the Centre for Democracy and Development, and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.
Momoh has served as External Examiner to the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan and University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa and Nigerian Defence College, NDC since 2005.
He has served on several government technical committees including being member and coordinator of “Foreign Policy” Subcommittee of Federal Republic of Nigeria “Vision 20:20” Technical Committee. He was also a member of the team that drafted the policy on “Peace Support Operations, PSOS, for the Federal Government.
Momoh also served as election Observer to several African countries on behalf of ECOWAS and African Union. He has also served as Election Observer to some European countries.
He is survived by a wife and a son.
