10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FORMER ANAMBRA GOV, PETER OBI

By AZUH AMATUS

1 Name: Peter Gregory Obi (CON).

2 He was a two-term governor of Anambra State and hugely transformed the state during his tenure.

3 Celebrated and soft-spoken Obi was the vice presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 general election.

4 Obi was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the Courts.

5 This revered Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist extraordinaire was the youngest ever chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc.

6 Multiple awards winning Obi is the recipient of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Best Performing Governor on Immunisation in South East Nigeria.

7 This great Nigerian attended Christ the King College, Onitsha for his secondary education, before moving to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, where he graduated in 1984, with a degree in Philosophy.

8 Cerebral and articulate Obi has also attended senior executive/management programs and courses at the Lagos Business School, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Cambridge and Oxford universities among other top notch institutions of higher learning globally.

9 Obi, a former chairman of south east governors forum, was also an ex chairman, board of Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC).

10 Unknown to many Nigerians, this dotting father of two who was born on July 19, 1961, in Onitsha, Anambra State, is also a proud member of the British Institute of Directors (IOD).

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