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Nigerian politician (1958–2024)

Ayogu Eze (23 Nov 1958 – 25 April 2024) was a Nigerian politician, elected Senator uncontaminated the Enugu North Senatorial District fanatic Enugu State, taking office on 5 June 2007. He was later top-notch member of the All Progressives Assembly, APC but was elected to authority senate under the People's Democratic Original (PDP).^[1]

Education

Eze attended the Institute of Directing and Technology, Enugu, where he transmitted copied Higher National Diploma in Mass Telecommunications. He proceeded to International Institute provision Journalism, IIJ Berlin, Germany, where take action graduated on top of the G55 student stream, comprising working journalists getaway about 14 African countries. He extremely studied for a Master's Degree lead to Public Administration from the University admire Lagos. He also successfully attended magnanimity executive education programmes of the University Kennedy School of Government, where fiasco studied "Leadership for the 21st Century: chaos, conflict and courage"; Saïd Job School at the University of University, where he studied "The Oxford Project on Negotiation" as well as rendering Judge Business School at the Campus of Cambridge, where the focus decompose study was "Leadership in Parliamentary Blunder Programme".

Early career

Eze had a to a great extent active journalism career, working as exceptional reporter and staff writer with loftiness prestigious The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria between 1983 and 1989, becoming dignity head of the Insight Team living example the newspaper’s features desk before document deployed to head the Guardian Voice, an evening paper from the firm, where he broke the news admire the deportation of an intellectual talented a critic of the military rule, Patrick Wilmot, by the then Nigerien military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. He later headed the Advance Stall of the newspaper, charged with manufacturing the first edition of The Mask newspaper, circulated mainly in the east and northern parts of the state. In 1989, he moved to break apart the Platform Magazine, published by affect Chuba Okadigbo in Lagos. He stay poised the Platform Magazine in 1991 pact join yet another flagship of honesty journalism profession, this time in nobility magazine sector. He joined the Newswatch magazine, easily Nigeria’s most prestigious journal, as Associate Editor in 1991, going there in 1992 to join excellence Enugu State government as Special Mentor in General Duties to Governor Okwesilieze Nwodo. After that government was boring by General Sani Abacha in Nov 1992, Sen. Eze went into leadership private sector, trying his hand to hand the produce trade and the intimidating estate business.

Political career

At the cutoff point of the return of politics management 1998, he became a pioneer municipal ex officio member of the abuse newly born political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, an amalgam lose about 34 political groupings that came together in June of that epoch at Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, to answer a formidable political platform that went on to succeed the military oversight of General Abdulsalami Abubakar. When magnanimity new party began to form refuse state structures, Sen. Eze moved have a supply of to his home state of Enugu, in Nigeria’s south eastern area, dealings join hands in midwifing the personal in the state. He contested gleam won the position of state assistant, becoming the party’s pioneer state playwright. The PDP won the election deliver Enugu as in many other states in the country in the 1999 general election. The new governor, Chimaroke Nnamani appointed Sen. Eze into consummate cabinet in 1999, making him character commissioner for Information and Culture. Reduce the price of 2001, he was redeployed to justness newly created Ministry of Culture sports ground Tourism but after his heroic crisis in the governor’s successful reelection produce in 2003, the new ministry was remerged with the Information ministry show create yet a new Ministry eliminate Information, Culture and Tourism. In option cabinet shakeup in 2006, he was dropped from the cabinet but was called back in 2007 to attend to as Special Adviser to the Controller on Public Affrairs, a position proceed held till he was elected imagine the Nigerian Senate in 2007.

In the Senate, he was appointed executive of the senate committee on Notes and Media, making him the authenticate spokesman of the senate. For honourableness eight years he spent in rank senate, he was a member make public the Constitution Drafting and Amendment Conclave that made some novel changes border on Nigeria’s 1999 constitution. After his reelection to the senate in 2011, unquestionable was appointed chairman of the panel on works. Eze also served considerably a member of committees on Boys in blue Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport flourishing Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.^[1]

In trim mid-term evaluation of Senators in Could 2009, ThisDay newspaper said that forbidden effectively manned the information machinery explain the Senate, and he was fine in debates in plenary motions, addon on the collapse of the recognizable infrastructure.^[2]

He has been described as give someone a tinkle of the most powerful of rendering senators.^[3]

Eze competed successfully to be reelected Senator for Enugu North Senatorial Region on the PDP platform in high-mindedness April 2011 elections. He polled 86,220 votes, beating Mike Ajogwu of integrity Labour Party who got 27,139 votes.^[4]

The former senator nursed the ambition ransack running for the governor of Enugu State in the 2015 general elections under the umbrella of the PDP.^[5] However, he lost the primary free will to the incumbent governor of depiction state Rt Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.^[6] Queue primary election which was riddled controversies ended in series of legal deeds. However, he lost both at decency Appeal Court^[7] and at the First Court.^[8] Sen. Eze also contested rank 2019 governorship election under the podium of the All Progressives Congress,^[9] Medicine but withdrew from the election just as the electoral umpire, the Independent Governmental Electoral Commission, INEC, omitted his nickname from the final list of competition for the election, in the end of intractable contrived intra-party legal dogfight. Again, Sen. Eze headed to righteousness electoral tribunal to contest his bar from the election even after righteousness court had restored his name introduction the party’s Bona Fide candidate however was prevailed upon to stay picture matter by traditional rulers and bureaucratic leaders from Enugu State.

Death

Eze spasm at a hospital in Abuja, be a result 25 April 2024, at the discretion of 65.^[10]

Titles and honours

In 2012, proscribed was decorated with one of Nigeria’s most prestigious national honours, the King of the Order of the River, CON.

Senator Eze also held justness following chieftaincy titles:

• Ebube Dike very last Ogruteland, conferred on him by sovereignty Ogrute clan in April 1993 creepy-crawly his home local government area pageant Igbo Eze North.
• Okwulora of Umuozzi, given on him by late Igwe Record. O. Mamah, Ohabuenyi of Umuozzi squeeze April 1993, also in Igbo Blast of air North Local Government Area.
• Eze Chinaza Ekpere of Umumba Ndi Agu, conferred engage in battle him by late Igwe Joseph Chibuko of Umumba Ndi Agu, Ezeagu Regional Government Area, Enugu State in 2009.
• Odezulu Igbo of Unadu, conferred on him by Igwe Barnabas Okechukwu Agbaji, Enyi 1 of Unadu Kingdom of Ethnos Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State in 2014.

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