{"id":18653,"date":"2017-03-31T04:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=18653"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:32:58","slug":"uzoka-hon-okwudili","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/uzoka-hon-okwudili\/","title":{"rendered":"UZOKA, Hon. Okwudili"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: State of Origin: October 1942 Anambra Hon Okwudili Uzoka is an industrial Management Expert who has registered aresounding success in Paterson Zochonis Industries (PZ) before he veered into Politics where he is strategically positioned to help in the making oflhe laws for the country. His Management expertise has been of immense help lo him as he uses it immensely to contribute to the useful debates in the parliament. Education \u2022 University ofNigeria Nsukka B.Sc Agric Econs 2nd Class Hons Upper Division Employment History and Job Experience \u2022 Joined Industrial Management and Marketing Department of Paterson Zochonis Industries (PZ) Lagos, \u2022 Gave a new lease of life to the Marketing Department and sales leaped high to anastronomical leveL \u2022 Left after a stint with the Company and joined Public Transportation Company. Became a successful Transport Magnet and Entrepreneur. Made huge success in the venture. Offered many young people jobs through his Transport Business Decided to join politics in 1998 as away to serve the needs ofthe people more and as an opportunity to help in enacting laws that will improve the lots of common man in the country. Joined Peoples Democratic Party in 1998 Contested election for a seat at the National Assembly to represent Ogbaru FederalConstituency ofAnambra State. Won Election in 1999 to the Federal House of Assembly to represent Ogbaru FederalConstituency. Became anoutspoken member oflhe Federal House especially in the areas of Transportation and Industrialization ofthe Country. \u2022 Did brilliantly in his first term in the House 1999 2003 \u2022 Given another mandate by his Constituents and he won a second term which he is serving now. Hon Okwudili Uzoka isa gifted speaker anda logical presenter of points. IIeis highly respected in the National Assembly especially by hiscolleagues and even Honourable members from other parties who see him as a powerful contributor to the proceedings ofthe house. He is married with five children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-18653","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/18653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}