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Fidelis C. Okoro is a Nigerian politician who was Senator for the
Enugu North Senatorial District Enugu North senatorial District in Enugu State is made up of six local government areas of Igbo-Etiti, Igboeze North, Igboeze South, Nsukka, Udenu and Uzo-Uwani Uzo-Uwani is a Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria bordering Kogi Stat ...
of
Enugu State Enugu State ( ig, Ȯra Enugu) is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered to the north by the states of Benue and Kogi, Ebonyi State to the east and southeast, Abia State to the south, and Anambra State to the west. T ...
at the start of the
Nigerian Fourth Republic The Fourth Republic is the current republican government of Nigeria. Since 1999, it has governed the country according to the fourth republican constitution. It was in many ways a revival of the Second Republic, which was in place between 1979 and ...
, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, Okoro was appointed to committees on Senate Services, Industries (chairman), Police Affairs, Agriculture and Niger Delta. He changed allegiance to the
People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to: * People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan *People's Democratic Party (Belize) *People's Democratic Party (Bhutan) *People's Democratic Party (Chile) * People's Democratic Party (Dom ...
(PDP) and became an ally of Governor
Chimaroke Nnamani Chimaroke Nnamani (born 30 May 1960) is a medical doctor and Nigerian politician from Enugu State. He was elected Governor of Enugu State in the 1999 Enugu State gubernatorial election from 1999 to 2007. He subsequently served as a People's De ...
. In December 2001, he was named in an assault suit by Chief Mike Ejinima, an aspirant to become governor, along with Nnamani,
Ike Ekweremadu Ike Ekweremadu (born 12 May 1962) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer from Enugu State who has served in the Senate of Nigeria since May 2003. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party, and was the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate f ...
and David Atigwe, a member of the Enugu State House of Assembly. He was reelected in April 2003 on the PDP ticket.


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Enugu State politicians Living people Igbo people Igbo politicians Nigerian Roman Catholics Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) politicians Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria) 20th-century Nigerian politicians 21st-century Nigerian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-politician-stub