A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State, Hon. Mascot Uzor Kalu, has congratulated Prof. Godswill Obioma on his appointment as Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examination Council (NECO).
In a statement made available to Igbere TV on Tuesday, Hon. Kalu tagged the appointment as ‘putting a round peg in a round hole’, noting that Prof. Obioma would bring his wealth of experience in education to reposition the examination body.
Describing the appointee as a true son of Abia and an academic scholar of great repute, who has stamped his scholarly authority in the educational sector, the APC chieftain said he received the news of the appointment with great delight.
“Your appointment as NECO’s helmsman is a testament to your sterling antecedents as Professor of Mathematics Education and Evaluation at the age of 36 in 1991, and as Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) in 2005,” he said.
Hon. Kalu said he was confident that Prof. Obioma will discharge the duties of his new office with diligence and a high sense of patriotism, bringing his long years of experience in educational administration to bear on the nation’s examinations body.
The APC chieftain also expressed deep appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment, while wishing Prof. Obioma a very successful tenure in his new national assignment as NECO boss.
The new NECO boss is a professor of Education Measurement and Evaluation and former Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC).
Until his latest appointment, Igbere TV reports that Prof. Obioma was the Ebonyi State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He hails from Bende, Abia State, and was appointed in 1991 as Professor of Mathematics Education and Evaluation, University of Jos (UNIJOS).
He was also a Director of Monitoring, Research and Statistics, National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), Benin, Edo State from 2001 to 2003.
