Tony Okechukwu Nwoye (born 13 September 1974) is a Nigerian politician, a former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives representing the people of Anambra East/West constituency of Anambra state. A former Governorship candidate of the

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, PDP, in the

2013 Anambra State gubernatorial election The 2013 Anambra State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on 16 November 2013. The APGA nominee Willie Obiano won the election, defeating Tony Nwoye of the PDP. Willie Obiano emerged APGA candidate after defeating 4 other candidates ...

and was also a gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the

2017 Anambra State gubernatorial election The 2017 Anambra State gubernatorial election occurred in Nigeria on 18 November 2017, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA nominee Willie Obiano won re-election, defeating Tony Nwoye of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Willie Obiano ...

. He is currently a member of the Labour Party.

Background

Nwoye was born to the family of chief and Mrs. Lawrence Nwoye of Offianta Nsugbe on 13 September 1974. He went to Metropolitan Secondary School, Onitsha for his secondary education from where he proceeded to study medicine in the

University of Nigeria The University of Nigeria, commonly referred to as UNN, is a federal university located in Nsukka, Enugu State, Eastern part of Nigeria. Founded by Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1955 and formally opened on 7 October 1960, the University of Nigeria has thr ...

college of medicine and later furthered his knowledge of medicine at the

Ebonyi state University Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki was founded in 1999 in Abakaliki, Nigeria. The university's medical faculty was established in 1991 as ESUT's Faculty of Health Sciences. Many of its facilities were developed in response to a Guinea worm pandem ...

and sworn in as a medical doctor.

Political career

Nwoye started his political career as a medical student where he functioned in different capacities as a leader. He was noted to have fought for student unionism. He later became the first medical student to become the speaker of the student union House of Representatives at the University of Nigeria. He received an award from the then Vice Chancellor, Prof Ginigeme Mbanefo, for the role he played in fighting cultism in the school. He became the national president in December 2003. He rose to state power as Assistant Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Anambra State PDP in 2005 and by 2006 at the age of 31, he became the Chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Anambra State PDP making him the youngest State Chairman of a major political party in the entire nation. In 2014 he unsuccessfully contested for Anambra State election under PDP. In 2015, he won a case at the Election Tribunal over the APGA (All Progressive Grand Alliance) candidate, Peter Madubueze, to become the representative for Anambra East and West in the Federal House of Representatives. In 2016, Nwoye left PDP and joined APC (All Progressives Congress).

Business

He is the founder and non executive Director of Vintage Consolidated Ltd.

References

External links

*http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/nwoye-dumps-pdp-apc-empowers-constituents/ *https://www.informationng.com/tag/tony-nwoye *https://totalmandategg.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/the-man-tony-nwoye-the-next-governor-of-anambra-state/ *http://nigerianpilot.com/anambra-politics-new-gladiators-apc-emerge/ *http://www.herald.ng/why-ndigbo-are-leaving-pdp-for-apc-nwoye/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Nwoye, Tony 1958 births Living people People from Onitsha University of Nigeria alumni