{"id":21654,"date":"2017-09-07T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=21654"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T12:11:24","slug":"nnaji-senator-emeka-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nnaji-senator-emeka-gilbert\/","title":{"rendered":"NNAJI, Sen  Emeka Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilbert Emeka Nnaji was born on July 18, 1966. He is an indigene of Nike in Enugu<br \/>\nState.<br \/>\nHe had his primary Education at Community Primary School, Amoji, Nike. He then proceeded to Boys High School Awkunanaw where he did his Secondary Education. He then attended the University of Nigeria(UNN) where he graduated with a B.Sc in Banking and Finance.<br \/>\nGilbert Nnaji began his career in politics when he became the Chairman of the Enugu East Local Government  from 1997 to 1998. He was again re-elected as Chairman from 1999 to 2002.<br \/>\nGilbert contested for the Federal House of Representatives and won in 2003. He was in the Federal house of representatives for two tenures. It is worthy to note that  he was Deputy House Leader while at the Federal House of Representatives.<br \/>\nIn the 2015 elections, he contested for the Enugu East senatorial district and won under the platform of the People&#8217;s Democratic Party(PDP). However, his opponent, former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani went to the election petition tribunal to contest the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-21654","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/21654","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\/21654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21654"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=21654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}