Biography of audu ogbe
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As Audu Ogbeh takes the back seat
Eric Teniola
When President Muhammadu Buhari submitted his list of ministers to the Senate on July 23, the name of Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh was missing. He was one of the few ministers who were not re-nominated by the President. And this led to a conclusion that, perhaps, the public service career of this colourful politician is over and that henceforth he will retire to his village in Efugu-Otukpa with his wife, Justina Obehi, and take the back seat with a role as an elder statesman. If that should be, it is not too early to thank Chief Ogbeh for his contributions to Nigeria. No doubt, Chief Audu Ogbeh now has a passport to join the league of Benue State greats including Chief Jacob Obade, the Minister of State in charge of the Nigerian Army in the early sixties, who recruited most military officers from that zone; Chief Joseph Sarwuan Tarka, who formed the United Middle Belt Congress at the age of 23 along with Chief Isaac Shaahu and others. And became a leader of the region till his death and Col. Joseph Akahan, the Chief of Army Staff from Gboko, who died in a helicopter crash during the civil war at the age of 31 in May 1968. Others with similar passports are Brig. Gen. David Bonaventure Alachenu Mark from Otukpo; Maj. Gen Lawre
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Audu Ogbeh
Nigerian politician and farmer (born 1947)
Audu Innocent Ogbeh ((listenⓘ); born 28 July 1947) is a Nigerian farmer, playwright and politician who served as the minister of agriculture and rural development from 2015 to 2019.[1][2] He was chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 2001 until January 2005. He served as the minister of communications in the Nigerian Second Republic from 1982 to 1983. He is known for his literary works, and has written five plays which include three published works. One of his plays, the Epitaph of Simon Kisulu was staged at Muson Center in 2002.[3]
Background
[edit]Ogbeh was born on 28 July 1947, in present day Benue State. He is of Idoma background. He attended King's College, Lagos from 1967 to 1969, then studied at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1969 to 1972 and the University of Toulouse, France from 1973 to 1974. He lectured at the Institute of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 1972 to 1976, and headed the department of humanities, Murtala College of Arts, Science and Technology from 1977 to 1979.[1]
Political career
[edit]In 1979, he ran for office in the Benue State House of Assembly on the Platform of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), beco