Enyinnaya Abaribe

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name =Enyinnaya Harkcourt Abaribe
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office =Senator for Abia-South
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term_start =May 29, 2007
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predecessor = Adolphus Wabara
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office2 =Deputy Governor of Abia State
term_start2 =May 29, 1999
term_end2 =March 7, 2003
governor2 =Orji Uzor Kalu
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birth_date =March 31, 1955
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nationality =Nigerian
party =PDP (formerly ANPP)
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Enyinnaya Harkcourt Abaribe (born March 3, 1955) is a Nigerian politician who represents Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State in the Senate of Nigeria. He holds the title Nnadiohanma Ngwa.

Education

Abaribe earned his WASSCE from Government College Umuahia in 1974. He received a bachelor's degree economics in 1979 and a master's degree in the same subject in 1982, both from the University of Benin. He lectured at Edo State University from 1982 until 1985.

Business career

From 1985 until 1991, he was SCOA Nigeria's area manager for Southern Nigeria. After that, from 1991 to 1992, he was employed as Nicon's senior manager for investment. From 1993 until 1995 he was the CEO of Integrated Mortgage Co.

Political career

Deputy governorship and gubernatorial run

Abaribe became Abia State's Deputy Governor after Orji Uzor Kalu's 1999 election to the Governorship. The state's House of Assembly impeached the deputy governor twice in 2000 [cite news |first=Oke |last=Epia |title= Abia: Kalu Vs the Ngwa Rage |url=http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2004/09/05/20040905cov02.html |work=This Day Online |publisher= Leader & Company |date=2004-09-05 |accessdate=2008-01-29 ] and a third time in 2003; as he was facing his third impeachment, he resigned on March 7, 2003, sending his resignation via DHL so as to have written record of it. [cite news |first= Enyinnaya |last=Abaribe |coauthors=interviewed by Chuks Okocha |title= 'Why I Sent My Resignation Letter By Courier'|url=http://www.thisdayonline.com/political/20030320pol07.html |work=This Day Online |publisher=Leaders & Company |date= 2003-03-20 |accessdate=2008-01-29 ] The House of Assembly formally voted him out of office several days later, in a move Abaribe called "medicine after death". [cite news |first=Auwalu S. |last= Mu’asu |title= My impeachment was an after thought –Abaribe |url=http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/mar/19/0094.html |work=Daily Trust (BiafraNigeriaWorld) |publisher= |date= 2003-03-19 |accessdate=2008-01-29 ]

Abaribe ran for the governorship on the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) platform in 2003, but lost to Kalu.

enatorial career

Abaribe was elected to the national Senate in 2007 on a People's Democratic Party (PDP) ticket;cite web |url= http://nassnig.org/senate/Personal%20data/Abaribe/Senate%20Abaribe%20E.html |title=Senator Enyinnaya Harkcourt Abaribe |accessdate=2008-01-29 |format= |work= |publisher=National Assembly of Nigeria] Dan Chinyere Imo of the ANPP challenged the validity election. [cite news |first=Festus |last=Owete |title=Abaribe Petitions NJC Over Abia Chief Judge |url=http://www.independentngonline.com/?c=154&a=3404 |work=Daily Independent Online |publisher=Independent Newspapers |date= 2007-10-13|accessdate=2008-01-29 ]

Abaribe is Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs (Senator Abdulaziz Usman of Jigawa-North East is Chairman). [cite web |url= http://nassnig.org/senate/committee_pages%5B1%5D/Parliamentary.htm |title= Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs |accessdate=2008-01-29 |format= |work= |publisher=National Assembly of Nigeria] He is also a member of the Committees on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Senate Services, and Works. In October 2007, as Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the banned secessionist organization Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), was on trial for treason, Abaribe and six other southeastern senators protested at the Federal High Court in Lagos to demand his release. [cite news |first= Ise-Oluwa |last=Ige |title=S-East Senators storm court, demand Uwazuruike's release |url= http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200&Itemid=42 |work=Vanguard Online |publisher= Vanguard Media|date= 2007-10-03 |accessdate=2008-01-29 ]

References

External links

*cite news |first=Enyinnaya |last=Abaribe| coauthors=interviewed by Desmond Utomwen |title=Why Ali Is Still PDP Chairman —Eyinaya Abaribe |url=http://www.thenewsng.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2980 |work=The News |publisher= Independent Communications Network|date=2007-06-25 |accessdate=2008-01-29
*cite news |first= Enyinnaya |last= Abaribe |coauthors=interviewed by Emmanuel-Enyi Appolos |title=Abaribe: PPA, APGA can’t dislodge PDP in South-East |url= http://www.thenationonlineng.com/dynamicpage.asp?id=40420 |work= The Nation |date=2007-12-19 |accessdate=2008-01-29
*cite news |first=Dokun |last=Oloyede |authorlink= |coauthors=Frank Kintum |title= Revolt of the 'Spare Tyres'|url=http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2001/11/25/20011125cov04.html |work= This Day Online |publisher= Leaders & Company |date=2001-11-25 |accessdate=2008-01-29