Nigeria's Ambassador To US, Sylvanus Nsofor, Is Dead

Nigeria's ambassador to the US, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, has died, aged 85.

The former diplomat died late Thursday evening, although, there has been disclosure regarding the cause of death.

Nsofor took up office as the ambassador in 2017, prior to that role, he served as a justice of the Court of Appeal.

Nsofor was born in 1935 in Imo State, graduating from the now-defunct Holborn College of Law, London, in the year 1962.

He served on a three-man panel team that adjudged the winner of the 2003 presidential election - a race between the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the then All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and former President Olusegun Obasanjo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

His ruling was in opposition to the rest of the members of the panel, he said that “I find that the substantial non-compliance with the mandatory electoral law amounts to no election. I also find that there was violence perpetuated by President Obasanjo...May Nigeria never and never again see a black Saturday like April 19, 2003,” according to allgov.com.

Nsofor died towards the end of his tenure as ambassador.