PETER OBI RELEASES HIS FULL PROFILE AS MORE
NIGERIANS PREVAIL ON HIM TO RUN FOR PRESIDENCY.
NAME: Mr Peter Gregory OBI, (CON).
DATE OF BIRTH: 19th July 1961,
PLACE OF BIRTH: Onitsha, Nigeria
NATIONALITY: Nigerian
MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED
· Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.)
. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (B.A. Philosophy)
· Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive
Program)
· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid
Marketing)
· Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Changing the
Game)
· London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business
Policy)
· Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing
Mgmt )
· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
(Senior Executive Program)
· Institute for Management Development, Switzerland
(Break-Through Program for CEOs)
· Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A.
(Advanced Executive Program)
· Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced
Mgmt Program)
. Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced
Mgmt& Leadership Program)
. Cambridge University: George Business School
(Advanced Leadership Program)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD
· Governor, Anambra State of Nigeria (2006-2014)
· Honorary Special Adviser to the President on Finance (till
May, 2015)
· Member, Presidential Economic Management Team (till
May, 2015)
· Vice-Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum (2008-2014)
· Chairman, South-East Governors’ Forum (2006-2014)
. Former Chairman: Board of Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)
· Former Chairman: Fidelity Bank Plc.
· Former Chairman: Guardian Express Mortgage Bank, Ltd.
· Former Chairman: Future Views Securities, Ltd.
· Former Chairman: Paymaster Nigeria Plc.
· Former Chairman: Next International (Nigeria) Ltd
· Former Director: Guardian Express Bank Plc.
· Former Director: Chams Nigeria Plc.
· Former Director: Emerging Capital Ltd
· Former Director: Card Centre Plc
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/
ORGANIZATIONS
· Member, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)
· Member, Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers
· Member, British Institute of Directors (IOD)
MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEES
In my capacity as the Governor of Anambra State, I served
as a member of:
Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage
Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with
Labour on Subsidy
Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit
Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource
National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector
Reform
National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of
MDGs Funds
National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data
on Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export
Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council
Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Public Universities
in Nigeria
National Economic Council Review Committee on the
Power Sector
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2015: Golden Jubilee Award from Catholic Diocese of
Onitsha for outstanding contribution to quality healthcare
delivery in St. Charles Borromeo Hospital in particular and
Anambra State in general, on the occasion of the Golden
Jubilee celebration of the hospital.
2014: Nigerian Library Association Golden Merit Award
for remarkable improvement of libraries in Anambra State,
exemplified by our Government’s construction of the
Kenneth Dike Digital State Library, remarkable upgrade of
the Onitsha Divisional Library, and provision of library
facilities in secondary schools across the State.
2014: Champion Newspaper Most Outstanding Igbo Man
of the Decade.
2014 The Voice Newspaper (Holand) Achievers Award for
Outstanding Example in Leadership and Governance.
2013: Silver Bird Man of the Year (with Governor
BabatundeFashola of Lagos State).
2012: Business Hallmark Newspaper Man of the Year.
2012: The Golden Award on Prudence – by the Methodist
Church of Nigeria as the Most
Financially Prudent Governor in Nigeria.
2012: Leadership and Good Governance Award by The
Ezeife Leadership Foundation Award for restoring peace
and harmony to Anambra State.
2012: Best Performing Governor on Immunization in
South-East Nigeria – by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2012: Outstanding Financial Planner and Manager – by
the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion for my
resourcefulness and creativity in governance.
2011: Zik Leadership Prize.
2010: ICT Governor of the Year – by the West Africa ICT
Development Award.
2009: Champion Newspaper Nigeria’s Most Trustworthy
Governor Award.
2009: Thisday Newspaper Most Prudent Governor in
Nigeria.
2007: The Sun Newspaper Man of the Year Award.
The Nigerian MDGs Office/UNDP Best Governor in the
Implementation of the MDGs in Nigeria
INTRODUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER
MAJOR CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS
He was the first gubernatorial candidate in Nigeria to
legally challenge to its logical conclusion,his governorship
electoral victory that was denied him.He won in the Courts
and reclaimed his mandate.
He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally challenge
his wrongful impeachment and was reinstated by the
Courts.
He was the first Governor in Nigeria to seek the
interpretation of tenures of Governors when INEC allowed
elections to take place in Anambra State when his tenure
had not expired; the election already concluded was
cancelled and he was allowed to complete his tenure.
He was the first Governor to serve a 2nd term in both the
new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after
creation of the State.
He was the first Governor, whilst still in Office, to be
appointed a Special Adviser to the President.
He was the first serving Governor to be appointed into the
Presidential Economic Management Team.
He was among the first Governors to be honoured with a
National Award in 2011, while still in office.
Though the only Governor whose political party was in
government in only one State, he was elected Vice-
Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum twice.
Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East
(made up of 5 States), he was elected by the other 4 PDP
Governors as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the
usual one year.
FUNDAMENTAL ACHIEVEMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF
ANAMBRA STATE (PARTIAL LISTING)
1. Anambra was the first State to commence Sub-
Sovereign Wealth savings, the first of its kind in Sub-
Saharan Africa. At a time many other Governors were
leaving huge debts, I left the equivalent of $500 million
Dollars in investment as well as local and foreign currency,
including $156 million in Dollar-denominated bonds.
2. For the first time in the history of Anambra State,
Ambassadors and High Commissioners of notable
countries such as United Stated, Britain, Russia, European
Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, the Netherlands,
Canada, among others, visited the State.
Before my tenure, Anambra was practically a pariah state
blacklisted by the Diplomatic Corps and international
development partners.
3. Development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, the
World Bank, DFID, the European Union etc., which hitherto
were not in Anambra State started working with the State.
Anambra was consistently adjudged one of the best states
in development partnership and commitment to reforms
for good governance.
4. He was recognised as Best Governor by the Millennium
Development Goals Office (OSSAP-MDGs) and the UNDP
in the implementation of their programmes in Nigeria.
5. The Nigerian Debt Management Office (DMO) rated
Anambra as the least indebted state in Nigeria. In spite of
visible and measurable achievements recorded in various
sectors, the State under him did not borrow or raise bonds
for her various projects.
6. The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated
Anambra State as the most financially stable state in the
country.
7. The State’s ground-breaking return of schools to their
original owners – Voluntary Agencies (Churches) on 1st
January 2009, and subsequent partnership with the
Agencies in Education, saw the State move from 24th
position out of 36 States to Number One in National
Examination Council (NECO) and West African
Examination Council (WAEC) examinations for three
consecutive years. This made the World Bank to
commission a study, led by the renowned Prof. Paul
Collier of Oxford University, on this revolutionary
partnership and phenomenal achievement.
8. The State also entered into strategic partnership with
the Churches in the Health sector. This symbiotic
relationship resulted in a tremendous boost to health care
because of the services offered by health institutions
owned by Voluntary Agencies, while the State restored
grants to the agencies and made available to them more
than 50 million Dollars in various types of support.
10. Through partnership with the Church in the Health
sector, his Government funded the transformation of -:
a: Iyienu Hospital, Ogidi;
b: Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Ihiala;
c: St Charles Borromeo Hospital, Onitsha;
d: Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha; and
e: St. Joseph Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu.
His Government also built the Joseph Nwilo Heart Centre
in St. Joseph, Adazi-Nnukwu, where heart operations are
now being performed.
11. His Government won the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation (1 Million dollars) as the best-performing state
in immunisation in the South-East. With complementary
funding from our Government, they used the money to
build 10 Maternal and Child Care Centres across the State,
particularly in rural communities, in partnership with the
Churches.
12. The State was the first to procure and distribute more
than 30,000 computers to secondary schools, including
22,500 from HP. The Managing Director for Personal
Systems Group HP Inc, Mr. Fabrice Campoy described the
deployment as the biggest of such projects in the Middle-
East and Africa.
13. Anambra State Government provided Microsoft
Academies to more than 500 secondary schools, which
the Head of Microsoft in Nigeria (Mr. Ken Span) described
as the biggest such deployment in Africa so far.
14. The State provided Internet access to more than 500
secondary schools, which the CEO of Galaxy Backbone
(Mr. Gerald Ilukwe) characterized as incomparable to any
in the country.
15. More than 700 buses were provided to secondary
schools in the State by our Government.
16. Boreholes were provided in schools all over the State.
17. Numerous classrooms were built in all the 177
communities of the State.
18 As part of the efforts to turn around the economy of
the State, a number of companies were attracted to build
their facilities in the Anambra.
A case in point is SABMiller, the 2nd largest brewery in the
world, which built their first Green Field facility in the State,
which is today one of the most successful facilities they
operate globally.
19. A number of other companies followed the SABMiller
initiative and were all supported and encouraged under
our Government; a good example is INNOSON Motor
Manufacturing Company, from which our government
bought more than 1,000 vehicles.
20. Anambra State for the first time started close
collaboration with recognized government security
agencies (the Police, Army, Navy, Department of State
Security, Civil Defence, among others), offering them
various types of support including provision of more than
500 security vehicles. The improvement in security was
phenomenal, such that the former IG of Police (Abubakar
Mohammed) lauded Anambra State for not witnessing any
bank robbery in my last three years in office.
21. To further enhance security, Anambra State provided at
least one security vehicle to each of all the 177
communities in the State as well as various organizations
such as markets and Churches.
22. His Administration conceived and built, from scratch,
the first state-owned Teaching Hospital, Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu-Ojukwu teaching Hospital, Awka.
23. His Government commenced the planned development
of the Igbariam Campus of the ChukwuemekaOdumegwu-
Ojukwu University, including the fencing, construction of
internal roads, electrification, construction of the Faculty
of Law, Auditorium, Administrative Block, Faculty of
Agriculture, Management Building, among others).
24. His Government attracted the World Bank support on
erosion – National Erosion and Watershed Management
Project (NEWMAP) – to Anambra State.
25. His Government was the first to do Poverty Mapping in
Nigeria, as a guide for the effective implementation of our
poverty-alleviation strategies.
26 His Government, for the first time, undertook the aerial
mapping of Awka as well as the production of Structure
Plans for Awka Capital Territory, Onitsha and Nnewi.
27. During his tenure and with his Government’s support,
Anambra State became an oil producing State.
28. He built the first Secretariat Complex to house State
Government Ministries that were hitherto scattered around
the State.
29. His government commenced the development of the
‘Three Arms Zone’ comprising Government House/
Governor’s Lodge, Legislative Building/Speakers
Residence, and Judiciary Building with Chief Judge’s
Residence.
30. By the end of his tenure in 2014, more than twelve (12)
health institutions, including two hospitals, had secured
accreditation; when we took off in 2006, no health
institution in Anambra State was duly accredited.
31. Anambra State was the first to undergo national peer
review, which scrutinised State Governments for good
governance, through the State Peer Review Mechanism
(SPRM), an initiative of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum in
collaboration with the DFID.