Obihara Chikweh.

Lecturer from 1969-1971. as Deputy Director of Agricultural Research in A19g7r1icualntudralwRaseseparorcmhoitned197F2e,daerpaol stDhireechteolrd otilfl ' Dr' Obihara served as the Chairman of the Agricultural Development Corporation, Imo State from 1977 to 1978. Dr Obihara has been a member of several boards in recent times. He was amember of the Board of Trustees, I.I.T.A., Ibadan and was at a time the Liaison Officer for Nigeria in the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, London. He was a member of the governing Councils of the Crops Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, Benin, and the Institute of Agricultural Research, Samaru, Zaria. He married Anne Margaret Obihara in 1954 and they both have three children — two boys and a girl. Doctor Obihara has published nineteen books. He has also visited the U.K., U.S.A., Yugoslavia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, and Thailand to name a few. He is christian o\ the Roman Catholic denomination and spends his leisure playing lawn tennis, swimming, golf and gardening. He is a member of the Nigeria Peoples Party and represents Owerri South in the House of Representatives.