Eze Festus Odimegwu, the Chairman of National Population Commission, NPC has resigned after a brief tenure marked by controversies.

The resignation of the former Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria’s leading brewery, NB plc was announced in a statement issued Thursday from the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

It was signed by Sam Nwaobasi, the media aide to Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

No reason was given for the resignation of Odimegwu which, according to the statement took immediate effect.

But there have been calls for the sack of the former brewer, especially following his assertions that the country has not conducted any credible census since it started engaging in the exercise since 1816.

Odumegwu alleged that the figures released after previous census exercises, the last of which was held in 2006 were mostly cooked up.

“There was no census, ” the former NB plc managing director said at a press conference earlier this year of the 2006 exercise.