Chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria
In office 1993 – 19 November 1993
Preceded by
Humphrey Nwosu
Succeeded by
Sumner Dagogo-Jack
Personal details
Born
12 June 1947 Akwa-Ibom
Died
17 April 2014(2014-04-17) (aged 66)
Nationality
Nigerian
Okon Edet Uyalistenⓘ (12 June 1947 – 17 April 2014) was briefly the chairman of the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON), appointed by President Ibrahim Babangida after the presidential elections of the 12 June 1993 had been annulled and the previous chairman, Humphrey Nwosu, dismissed.[1]
Uya was of Oron origins.[2]
He spent six years as a senior official in Nigeria's diplomatic corps, serving as Nigeria's ambassador in Argentina, Peru, Paraguay and Chile.[3]
When a professor of history at the University of Calabar, Uya was appointed to conduct a new presidential poll after the annulment of the 12 June 1993 election. The National Republican Convention and Social Democratic Party were asked to present new candidates for a poll that it was hoped would be held by March 1994. But the confusion that followed the annulment crisis prevented Uya from conducting the election before General Sani Abacha assumed power and dismissed him from his office.[1]
He later became the Deputy Vice Chancellor and acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar.[3] The last undergraduate course that he taught concerned the Atlantic slave trade.[citation needed]
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unifying influences among villages and clans that made up Oron Nation. Uya, Okon (1983). History of Oron People in the Lower Cross River Basin p.36. ISBN 9789782451002...
a village in Abi local government area of Cross River State, Nigeria. Uya, Okon Edet (2005). The efik and their neighbours: historical perspectives. Cats...
Calabar through the centuries, Calabar: Hope Waddell Press OCLC 476222042 Uya, Okon Edet (1984), A history of Oron people, Oron: Manson Publishing Company...
original (PDF) on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2018-08-06. J. F. Ade Ajayi, Okon Edet Uya (2010). Slavery and Slave Trade in Nigeria. From Earliest Times to The...
The Magic, Beliefs and Customs of the Ibibio Tribe. ISBN 9781136968822. Uya, Okon (1983). History of Oron People in the Lower Cross River Basin p.24. ISBN 9789782451002...
Balondo-ba-Konja now live in the southwest coastal region of Cameroon. Uya, Okon Edet (1984). A history of Oron people of the lower Cross River basin....
University of South Carolina Press. "Robert Smalls (1839–1915)," pp. 65–70. Uya, Okon Edet, From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839–1915 (Oxford...
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