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Dr.peter Odili At 69: 15 Facts You Must Know About Him by suasmablow(m): 1:52pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
Source: http://www.suanusblog.com/2017/08/odili-at-69-15-facts-you-must-know.html?m=1 Peter Otunuya Odili is a common name in Nigeria's political sphere. He is undoubtedly a man of many achievements and and very interesting controversies. As He celebrates His 69th birthday today, Suanu's Blog brings you 15 Facts about this personality. 1. He hails from Ogbaru clan of Ndoni community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State. He is of the ethnic Bloc called Orashi, one of the major ethnic Blocs in Rivers State. 2. He is an alumnus of the Medical School of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and University of Liverpool, in the United Kingdom, specialising in Tropical Medicine. 3. He is married to Mary Ukaego Odili, a justice of Nigeria's Apex Court. 4. Politically, Odili had served as a member and leader of the Rivers State Delegates to the 1988/89 constituent assembly, Deputy Governor (1992-1993), member and Chairman, conference committee on state creation at the national constitutional conference, national secretary of the defunct Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) and Governor of Rivers State (1999-2007). 5. In 2004 he survived an assassination attempt as members of a dreaded cult group (in the state due to the general insecurity under his administration) attacked his convoy along the East-West Road in PortHarcourt killing a police man and one other. 6. In January 2007, Human Rights Watch in a report detailed what was called "Pervasive Patterns of Corruption And Mismanagement" at the State and local levels under Odili. 7. In 2009, he was revealed as a sponsor of election rigging and other criminal acts by a professional kidnapper named Adiele Nwaeze. 8. Odili who is also a political godfather became one of the greatest victims of political godfatherism when former president Obasanjo taking the position of a good single-handed killed the Presidential ambition of Dr.Odili who many had referred to then already as "President-in-waiting". 9. He is the only Nigeria politician known to have spent the highest sum on pre-primary election campaigns within a very short period. Odili who traversed the whole of Nigeria in less than a month ahead of the 2007 General Elections was believed to have lavished over N2bn. 10. Odili is one of those very few Nigerians who have Traditional and Religious Titles across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria. 11. Despite the huge corruption allegation against Him, no individual, group, organisation or government has been able to prosecute Him due to a perpetual injunction secured for Him by the Solomonic Counsel of His wife. Till date the injunction has not been vacated. 12. Among other corruption allegations against him, in 2013 he was alleged to have plundered $500m of Rivers State funds to set up Arik Air. 13. He was fingered in the controversial $2bn Arms Deal diverted by the Jonathan administration into the 2015 General Elections. 14. He has been a steadfast member of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, from 1999 till date unlike some of his contemporaries who have defected and redefected. 15. He was popularly called "The Golden Governor", "Father Christmas", and "Donatus" while in office due to His extravagant life style. As True As The Fact That We Can't Change History, Even As He Adds Another Year To His Years, This Is Wishing Sir Dr.Peter Odili A Happy Birthday.
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Re: Dr.peter Odili At 69: 15 Facts You Must Know About Him by philchudi: 1:58pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
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Re: Dr.peter Odili At 69: 15 Facts You Must Know About Him by StarOfDavid(m): 2:00pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
The same Egbema spited by the Nigerian state Imo, Rivers and Delta states...all of a sudden, the ones in delta and rivers are not Igbos because of Oil and they are not in the south east.....SMH |
Re: Dr.peter Odili At 69: 15 Facts You Must Know About Him by philchudi: 2:01pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
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Re: Dr.peter Odili At 69: 15 Facts You Must Know About Him by lollarj(f): 3:32pm On Aug 15, 2017 |
16. he drinks champagne like a fish. |
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