Peter Obi Biography, Net Worth, Age , Wife, Children and Amazing Things about him

Peter Obi Biography: Peter Obi is the current presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) after decamping from the Peoples Democratic party. He has carved a niche for himself and is basically one of the most discussed presidential candidate.

Full Profile at a Glance

Full Name: Peter Gregory Obi

Nickname: Okwute (Rock)

Nationality: Nigerian

State of Origin: Anambra State

Date of Birth: July 19, 1961

Age: 61(@ 2022)

City of Birth: Agulu, Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State

Relationship: Married

Family: Parents- Mr and Mrs Obi , Siblings- Bibiana Adani (older sister), Fabian Chinwuba Obi, Josephat Ndibe Obi, Martina Obi.

Wife- Margaret Brownson Usen, Children- Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi, Gregory Peter Oseloka Obi

Occupation: Businessman and Politician

Net Worth- $10 million

Peter Obi Biography 

Early Life

Peter Obi was born in the city of Onitsha, which is located in the state of Anambra, which is in the southeasterly part of Nigeria.

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He hails from Agulu, which is located in the Anaocha Local Government Area of the state of Anambra.

Peter Obi Biography- Family

At the time of publishing, there was no publicly available information regarding Mr. and Mrs. Obi, Peter Obi’s parents; nonetheless, there are rumours that he was born into a large Igbo Catholic family.

Peter Obi, the second born of the family, has two brothers and two sisters as siblings. They are as follows:

1. Bibiana Adani (older sister)
2. Fabian Chinwuba Obi
3. Josephat Ndibe Obi
4. Martina Obi.

His older sister, Bibiana Adani, is late. She passed away in 2018 at Adani Village, Ukana in the state of Enugu from a condition that was not mentioned and was laid to rest at the residence of her husband.

Fabian Obi, Peter’s younger brother, is a reverend who has been ordained. It was in October of 2020 when he was given the position of acting rector at the Blessed Iwene Tansi Major Seminary, which is located in Onitsha.

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According to reports, another of Peter Obi’s younger brothers, Ndibe Obi, is currently serving as the manager of one of his businesses.

Information about Martina Obi, the youngest living sibling and sister, is not readily available to the general public.

Peter Obi’s Wife and Children

Peter Obi tied the knot with Margaret Brownson Usen in the year 1992. Their union resulted in the birth of two children, one of each gender: a boy and a girl.

In 2017, it was said that the couple’s marriage was on the verge of breaking up. Margaret put an end to the rumour while at the same time condemning it as the height of wickedness.

In the meantime, Obi has done everything in his power to shield his personal life from view by the general public.

Peter Obi’s children

Gregory Peter Oseloka Obi is a male and is the younger of Peter Obi’s two children. Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi is a female and is the older of the two.

Peter Obi’s daughter marriage

Gabriella Nwamaka Frances Obi is married to Chukwuma Okeke-Ojiudu, a successful businessman who was born and raised in Chicago. The ceremony was performed in the month of April in 2022.

Obi’s daughter is “a teacher in secondary school,” according to Obi’s description of her occupation.

Peter Obi’s Son

Gregory Obi, the son of Peter Obi, received his degree in Philosophy from Bristol University in England.

He stated that his children “have never participated in any public life” and that his son, who will soon be 29 or 30 years old, “doesn’t possess a car because he has to buy his own car, not me.”

On the other hand, there are rumours that his son Gregory “drives a 2017 BMW X6 valued roughly N60 million in the UK and that he has been driving same since February 2018.”

Peter Obi Biography- Education

Christ the King College in Onitsha is where Peter Obi earned his West Africa Secondary School Certificate. He received his education there (WASC). Later, in 1980, he was accepted into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Philosophy in 1984.

Peter Obi received his education in Nigeria at the Lagos Business School, where he participated in the Chief Executive Program. Additionally, he completed two programmes at the Harvard Business School in Boston, which is located in the United States (Mid to Mid Marketing).

The following are some of the other schools he attended;

• London School of Economics (Financial Mgmt/Business Policy).
• Institute for management development, Switzerland where he also got two certificates in Senior Executive Program and Break-Through Program for CEOs.
• Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.A. (Marketing Management).
• Oxford University: Said Business School, (Advanced Mgmt& Leadership Program).
• Kellogg Graduate School of Management, U.S.A. (Advanced Executive Program).
• Cambridge University: George Business School (Advanced Leadership Program).
• Kellogg School of Management U.S.A. (Global Advanced Mgmt Program)

Peter Obi Career

Business

As was said before, Peter Obi is a successful businessman. It should not come as much of a surprise that he began his career as a trader given that he was born into a family that was involved in trading.

Later on, he made the transition into the business sector and has since held a variety of positions for a wide variety of companies.

Politics

Peter Obi ran against Chris Ngige, candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and was pronounced the victor by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Ngige now serves as the Minister of Labor in the administration of Muhammadu Buhari.

Peter filed a legal challenge against Ngige’s victory and on March 15, 2006, the Court of Appeal ruled that he should have been proclaimed the true winner.

He resumed office seven months later after he was impeached….

On March 17, 2006, he got back to work in his position. After serving as governor for seven months, he was removed from office on November 2, 2006, by the State House of Assembly, which resulted in Virginia Etiaba becoming Nigeria’s first female governor in the country’s entire history. This occurred seven months after he took office.

Obi went back to court and fought the impeachment, and on February 9, 2007, the Court of Appeal that was sitting in Enugu ruled in his favour and reinstated him as a judge.

After the verdict of the court, Etiaba gave him back the power he had lost.

Andy Uba’s accession to the governorship was called into question by Peter Obi as he took the case to court…

After Andy Uba was victorious in the general elections on May 29, 2007, Obi stepped down from his position as governor. In the meantime, he challenged the election of Uba in court, arguing that the four-year tenure he had won in 2003 only began counting when he took office in March 2006, and that he should be allowed to finish his full term.

On June 14th, the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled in his favour and ordered Uba to step down from his position so that Obi could take over. Up until March 2010, he was the governor of the state during his first term.

Peter Obi, who was running for a second term as governor of Anambra state, was proclaimed the winner of the 2010 Anambra governorship election on February 7, 2010, after defeating Professor Charles Soludo, who had served as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the previous administration.

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Willie Obiano took over as governor of Anambra state after he completed his second term as governor of the state, which he served until March 17, 2014.

Obiano also served two terms as governor before handing over power to Charles Soludo, the victor of the election for governor held on November 10, 2021.

On October 7, 2014, Peter Obi made the decision to leave APGA formally and join the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

After Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the presidential election of 2015, Peter Obi was selected to lead the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission as the country’s chairman (SEC).

Political Positions

On October 12, 2018, the Peoples Democratic Party announced that Peter Obi will serve as Atiku Abubakar’s running partner in the upcoming presidential election.

The election was won by Muhammadu Buhari, who was running as a candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Presidential ambition

On March 24, 2022, Peter Obi announced his desire to run for the presidency in 2023 on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Peter Obi decamps

On May 25th, Peter Obi made the announcement that he was resigning from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as well as withdrawing from running in the presidential primary election for the party.

Peter Obi Joins Labour Party (LP)

Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential Candidate

Two days after dumping the Peoples Democratic Party, on May 27, 2022, Peter made the announcement that he is a member of the Labour Party (LP), and that he will be running for president on the Labour Party’s platform.

On May 30th, Peter Obi was selected as the presidential candidate of the LP after other contenders, like as Pat Utomi, withdrew their candidacies in favour of him.

Peter Obi Biography

Achievements and Net worth

Peter Obi is said to have a net worth of $10 million and as of today is said to be wealthier than the current President of the United States of America, Joe Biden.

 

Some of his achievements are listed below; 

He was the first candidate for governor in Nigeria’s history to take a legal case to its natural conclusion in an attempt to win back the governorship election that was taken away from him. He was victorious in the courts and was able to recover his mandate.

In his capacity as Governor, he made history by being the first person ever to be assigned to the Presidential Economic Management Team.

In spite of the fact that he was the only Governor whose political party was in office in only one state, he was voted Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum on two separate occasions.

He was the first Governor to serve a second term in both the new and old Anambra State, which is almost 40 years after the creation of the state. This made him the first person to hold the position in both of Anambra’s iterations.

He was the first Governor in Nigeria to legally dispute his unjustified impeachment, and the courts ultimately ruled in his favour and reinstated him.

When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) permitted elections to take place in Anambra State while he was still serving as governor, he was the first governor in Nigeria to seek an interpretation of the tenures of governors. The election that had already taken place was cancelled, and he was given the opportunity to finish serving his term.

In 2011, while he was still serving as Governor, he was recognize with a National Award, making him one of the first Governors to receive such an honour.

He was the first Governor to be appointed to the position of Special Adviser to the President while still serving in that capacity.

Even though he was the only non-PDP Governor in the South-East (which is made up of 5 States), the other 4 PDP Governors elected him as their Chairman for 8 years rather than the usual one year. This is because the South-East is made up of 5 States.

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