What you should know about President Tinubu’s Ministerial nominee, Prof. Abubakar Momoh

Abubakar Momoh, was on Thursday unveiled as one of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ministerial nominees.

Persecondnews takes a look at Momoh’s impeccable profile.

Abubakar Momoh is Professor of Political Science and currently, the Director-General of the Electoral Institute of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Until his appointment, Momoh was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Momoh obtained his Ph.D 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 (CDD) and Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

He was Vice-President of African Association of Political Science (AAPS). He was also the National Treasurer, Academic Staff Union of Universities (1991-1995).

Momoh has been a researcher and lecturer at many universities across the world, including being Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland; Fellow, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden; and Visiting Scholar, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

He has also been a guest Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden; Guest Lecturer, Summer Course on African Law, Catholic University, Brussels, Belgium; Senior Fulbright Scholar, James Coleman African Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Guest Lecturer, African and African-American Studies Department, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

He is also a visiting Researcher and Tutor, Conflict, Security and Development Group (CSDG), King’s College, University of London; and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, International Development Centre, Open University, Milton Keynes, England, Post Graduate Research Supervisor, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, German, among others.

Momoh has served as External Examiner to the University of Lagos, University of Ibadan and University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. He has also been External Examiner to the Nigerian Defence College (NDC) since 2005.

Until his appointment, Momoh has also 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.

The Professor has also been on several technical teams of the African Union Commission (AUC), and most recently was involved in designing the African Governance Architecture (AGA) and Elections Bench-marking for the African Union.

He has also served as an election Observer to several African countries on behalf of ECOWAS and African Union. He has also served as Election Observer to some European countries.