Who is Peter Obi?

Biography Of Peter Obi Everything you need to know about the presidential candidate of Labour party Mr. Peter Obi Peter Obi was born on 19 July 1961 at Onitsha. He attended Christ the King College, Onitsha, where he completed his secondary school education. He was admitted to the University of Nigeria in 1980 and graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in philosophy in 1984. Peter Obi attended Lagos Business School, where he completed the Chief Executive Program, and Harvard Business School, where he completed two major programs, the London School of Economics, Columbia Business School, and the International Institute for Management Development, where he received certificates in the Senior Executive Program and the Chief Executive Officer Program. He also attended the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, Saïd Business School of Oxford University, and the Judge Business School of Cambridge University. Personal life Peter Obi married Margaret Brownson Obi (née Usen) in 1992. They have two children – a boy and a girl. Obi is a Catholic of Igbo descent. Peter Obi was a businessman before he ventured into politics. According to Peter Obi, he started his life as a trader, being born into a trading family before venturing into the corporate world. He held leadership positions in some private establishments. Some of the companies he served include Next International Nigeria Ltd, Chairman and Director of Guardian Express Mortgage Bank Ltd, Guardian Express Bank Plc, Future View Securities Ltd, Paymaster Nigeria Ltd, Chams Nigeria Ltd, Data Corp Ltd, and Card Centre Ltd. He was the youngest chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc. First term Peter Obi contested in the Anambra State Governorship Election as a candidate for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) party in 2003, but his opponent, Chris Ngige of the People's Democratic Party, was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). After nearly three years of litigation, Ngige's victory was overturned by the Court of Appeal on 15 March 2006. Obi took office on 17 March 2006. On 2 November 2006, he was impeached by the state house of the assembly after seven months in office and was replaced the next day by Virginia Etiaba, his deputy, making her the first-ever female governor in Nigeria's history. Obi successfully challenged his impeachment and was re-instated as the governor on 9 February 2007 by the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu. Etiaba handed power back to him after the court ruling. Peter Obi once again left office on 29 May 2007 following the General Elections, in which Andy Uba was declared the winner by the electoral body. Obi returned to the courts once more, this time contending that the four-year tenure he had won in the 2003 elections only started to run when he took office in March 2006. On 14 June 2007, the Supreme Court of Nigeria upheld Obi's contention and returned Obi to office. This brought to an abrupt end the tenure of Obi's successor, Andy Uba, whose 14 April 2007 election the Supreme Court nullified on the grounds that Obi's four-year tenure should have remained undisturbed until March 2010. Second term On 7 February 2010, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Peter Obi the winner of the 2010 Anambra State Gubernatorial election, where he defeated Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, former governor, CBN. This election victory gave Governor Obi an additional four years as the governor of Anambra State. On 17 March 2014, Peter Obi served out his second term and handed over the governorship to Willie Obiano. After the 2015 General Election, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Peter Obi as the chairman of the Nigerian Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). 2019 presidential elections On 12 October 2018, Peter Obi was named as the running mate to Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party's Presidential Candidate in the Nigerian 2019 Presidential elections. His party came second. 2023 Nigerian presidential election On 24 March 2022, Peter Obi declared his intention to run for the position of President of Nigeria under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, but later pulled out and announced he would be running under the Labour Party platform instead. According to the Peoples Gazette, Peter Obi wrote to the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party on 24 May to resign his membership. Obi reportedly complained of massive bribing of delegates and vote buying at the party's presidential primary, citing the existence of a party clique collaborating against him. notable awards of Peter Obi *and many more...

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Peter Obi é um político e empresário nigeriano. Ele nasceu em 19 de julho de 1961, em Onitsha, no estado de Anambra, Nigéria. Obi é conhecido por ter servido como governador do estado de Anambra em dois períodos: de 2006 a 20142. Ele começou sua carreira no setor bancário antes de entrar na política.

Em 2019, Peter Obi foi candidato a vice-presidente na chapa de Atiku Abubakar pelo Partido Democrático do Povo (PDP), mas não venceram a eleição. Em 2022, ele se filiou ao Partido Trabalhista e foi candidato à presidência da Nigéria nas eleições de 2023, mas perdeu para Bola Tinubu2. Obi é conhecido por sua abordagem populista e tem um grupo de apoiadores chamados "Obidients"

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When was Peter Obi born?

Peter Obi was born on 1961-07-19.

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Peter Obi is man driven by the desire to bring about very remarkable and positive change in the life and affairs of his people. He is open and judicious in the use of money. He is not wooed by money and that differentiates him form most Nigerian politicians. He is God-fearing.Olisaemeka Okoli,olisajohn@yahoo.com

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