Peter Godsday Orubebe (born 6 June 1959) was appointed
Nigeria
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Minister of Niger Delta on 6 April 2010 when acting president
Goodluck Jonathan
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announced his new cabinet.
Background
Orubebe was born on 6 June 1959 at
Ogbobagbene,
Burutu
Burutu is a Local Government Area in Delta State, Nigeria. It lies on the coast of the Niger Delta on two sides of the Forcados River, a channel of the River Niger, upstream from the Bight of Benin. It has served as a link between river tran ...
Local Government Area in
Delta State.
He is of
Ijaw Ijaw may refer to:
*Ijaw people
*Ijaw languages
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Classification
The Ijo languages were traditionally considered a ...
descent.
[ He attended the ]University of Lagos
The University of Lagos, popularly known as UNILAG, is a public research university located in Lagos, Nigeria and was founded in 1962. UNILAG is one of the first generation universities in Nigeria and is ranked among the top universities in th ...
, gaining a B.Sc. in political science in 1985. Later he obtained a master's degree in international relations from Ambrose Alli University
Ambrose Alli University (AAU) is a state-owned university in Edo State, Nigeria. It was established in 1981 by the governor of Bendel State (now Edo and Delta States), Ambrose Folorunsho Alli. Initially known as Bendel State University, sub ...
, Ekpoma
Ekpoma is a town in Edo State, Nigeria. It is the administrative headquarters of the Esan West Local Government Area. Ekpoma lies on the geographical coordinate of latitude .
The town has an official Post Office, and it is home to the Ambrose A ...
in 2005.[
]
Political career
Orubebe became a supervisory councilor, and later chairman of Burutu LGA. In July 2007, President Umaru Yar'Adua
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who, was the President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010. He was declared the winner of the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 20 ...
appointed him Minister of Special Duties.[ Later he became Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs when that ministry was created in December 2008.
In January 2010, he said that the proposed 10% equity share policy on infrastructural development in the ]Niger Delta
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. It is located within nine coastal southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South South geopolitical ...
region would make vandalism and crisis a thing of the past.
Controversy
On 31 March 2015, Orubebe, acting as a polling agent for the PDP, made attempts at disrupting the proceedings of the 2015 presidential election collation. Orubebe alleged that INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega
Attahiru Muhammadu Jega (born 11 January 1957) is a Nigerian academic and former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano. On 8 June 2010, he was nominated by then President Goodluck Jonathan as the new Chairman of the Independent National El ...
, had taken side with the main opposition political party, APC.
References
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1959 births
Living people
Federal ministers of Nigeria
Delta State politicians
Ijaw people
Ambrose Alli University alumni
University of Lagos alumni