Nyesom Wike

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Ezenwo Nyesom Wike (born 13 December 1967) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who has served as the minister of the Federal Capital Territory since 2023. He previously served as the governor of Rivers State from 2015 to 2023. He is also considered a champion of infrastructural development or nicknamed "Mr Project". An ethnic Ikwerre from Rumuepirikom in Obio-Akpor, in Southern Nigeria, he is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party and a graduate of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. Wike was elected as a two-term Executive Chairman of Obio Akpor Local Government Area from 1999 to 2007. He was appointed Minister of State for Education on 14 July 2011. Wike was later appointed the Acting Minister of Education, after Ruqayyah Ahmed Rufa'i was sacked but resigned before finishing his term to campaign for governor of Rivers State. He was replaced by Viola Onwuliri. In 2014, he won the Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party primaries and chose former Secretary to the State...

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