MR. GREGORY PETER OBI
7 Aerodrome Road, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: 08034051000
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: 19th July 1961, Onitsha – Nigeria
NATIONALITY: Nigeria
MARITAL STATUS: Married with two children
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED:
• Christ the King College, Onitsha (W.A.S.C.) - 1978
• University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (B.A. Philosophy) - 1984
• Lagos Business School, Nigeria (Chief Executive Program)
• Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S.A. (Mid to Mid Marketing)
• London School of Economics “L.S.E” (Financial Mgt./Business Policy)
• Columbia Business School, New York U.S.A. (Marketing Management)
• Kellogg Graduate School of Management U.S.A. (Advanced Exec. Prog.)
• Institute for Management Dev. (IMD), Switzerland (Snr. Executive Forum)
PRESENT AND PAST POSITIONS
• GOVERNOR: ANAMBRA STATE OF NIGERIA
• VICE CHAIRMAN NIGERIA GOVERNORS’ FORUM
• CHAIRMAN SOUTH-EAST GOVERNORS’ FORUM
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: FIDELITY BANK PLC
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: GUARDIAN EXPRESS MORTGAGE BANK LTD
• FORMER DIRECTOR: GUARDIAN EXPRESS BANK PLC
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: FUTURE VIEW SECURITIES LIMITED
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: PAYMASTER NIGERIA LIMITED
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: NEXT INTERNATIONAL (NIGERIA) LTD
• FORMER DIRECTOR: CHAMS NIGERIA LIMITED
• FORMER CHAIRMAN: DATACORP LIMITED
• FORMER DIRECTOR: CARD CENTRE LIMITED
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION/ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP:
• Member – Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG)
• Member – Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers
• Member – Common Wealth Business Council (CBC)
• Member – West African Business Committee (WABC)
• Member – British Institute of Directors (IOD)
• Member – British Nigerian Business Council (BNBC)
• Member – Nigerian South African Chamber of Commerce (NSACC)
INTRODUCED FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN NIGERIAN POLITICS
1. The first Nigerian to reclaim his Governorship mandate after three years in courts.
2. The first Governor to come back from impeachment through the courts, after he was removed 6 months into his office by reactionary forces of Anambra politics of those days.
3. The first Governor to go for tenure interpretation when INEC allowed elections to take place in the State when his tenure had not ended.
4. The first Governor to serve 2nd term both in the new and old Anambra State, that is, almost 40 years after creation.
5. The first serving Governor to be appointed a Special Adviser (Finance) to the President.
6. The first serving Governor appointed into the Presidential Economic Management team.
7. Among the first Governors to be honoured with a National Award in 2011, when the honour was extended to serving Governors.
8. Though only the Governor from a minority party, but elected Vice Chairman of the Governors’ Forum.
9. Though the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East then, but elected the Chairman of the South-East Governor’s Forum.
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEES
10. Federal Government Committee on Minimum Wage
11. Federal Government Committee on Negotiation with Labour on Subsidy
12. Federal Government Committee on Mass Transit
13. Federal Government Committee on Natural Resource Funds
14. National Economic Council Committee on Power Sector Reform
15. National Economic Council Committee on Sharing of MDGs funds
16. National Economic Council Committee on Accurate Data on the Nigeria’s Oil Import and Export
17. Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council
18. Sub-Committee on Needs Analysis of Nigeria Public Universities
19. National Economic Council Review Committee on the presentation on the Power Sector
ANAMBRA UNDER HIM
1. Under his tenure, Anambra State is no longer a pariah State that was scorned and laughed at. For the first time, Ambassadors of such countries as USA, Britain, Russia, European Union, South Africa, Belgium, Israel, Dutch, Canada, Venezuela, Ghana, among others, visited the State.
2. Many International organizations want to identify with Anambra State.
3. Anambra is held by development partners such as UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, European Union as the No.1 State committed to reforms and development.
4. Under him, the Debt Management Office rated Anambra as the least indebted State in Nigeria. In spite of the wonders he is performing in the State, he has not borrowed money from any financial institution.
5. Under him, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria rated Anambra State as the most financially stable.
6. Under him, the Federal Ministry of Works has adjudged Anambra as having the best network of roads in the country having asphalted over 700 Kilometres of roads.
7. He is building roads in areas of the State that did not have any single road before him because of their difficult terrain, eg, Anambra West, Anambra East and Ogbaru Local Governments.
8. To complement the impressive work on road construction, he is constructing over 20 bridges across the State out of which 15 have been completed such as Odor Bridge, Otuku Bridge, Aghomili Bridge, Ogbonabo Bridge, Obibia Bridge, Ebenebe Bridge, Okpu Bridge, among others.
9. He is working on over 18 medium schemes water projects across the State.
10. Known as the Governor of many firsts, under him, Anambra State has the first Secretariat, first Business Parks, first stadia, witnessing the phenomenal development of the Permanent Site of her University, the first Master Plans for the State’s major cities of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi, among others.
11. He recently returned missionary schools, taken from them since 1970 to them, with the grant of 6 billion Naira to rehabilitate the schools.
12. He has entered into strategic partnership with the Churches for the services their various institutions offer to the State. In health, he has restored grants to them and has made available the sum of 3 billion for them to rehabilitate their hospitals.
13. Gov. Obi was the first to provide and distribute to Anambra Schools the following: over 13,000 desktop/laptop computers; over 120 30kva generators; internet access to over 200 schools; over 120 buses to schools and provided boreholes to over 300 schools. He built classroom blocks in all the 177 communities in the State.
14. He has attracted a lot of foreign investors to the State. Among them are three Fortune 500 companies out of which one of them, SABmiller, has started production.
15. Under him, after investing over 4 Billion Naira in Orient petroleum, the first by Anambra State Government, Anambra has joined oil producing States with Orient petroleum commencing production.
16. He is also working on over 25 active erosion sites, some completed, others on-going, eg, Umuchiani Erosion, Ebenebe Erosion, Nkpor Erosion, Adazi-Nnukwu Erosion, Utuh Erosion, Osumenyi Erosion, among others.
17. Among his many intangible achievements is the payment of all outstanding pensions and gratuities in the State since 1999. On this he has spent over 4 Billion Naira to over 4000 families that benefitted. Today retirees in the State get their full benefits within three months of retirement.
18. Recently, the State Teaching hospital and College of Medicine conceived and built by him, secured accreditation from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
His achievements are legion that an occasion such as this would not have enough time for us to be comprehensive on that. In summary, we can say that he has introduced credibility and character into governance. When people disagree with him in politics, it is always on account of his insistence that the resources of the State must be deployed prudently
