{"id":7561,"date":"2017-01-11T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T13:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7561"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T21:24:44","slug":"edediugwu-patrick-igwe","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/edediugwu-patrick-igwe\/","title":{"rendered":"EDEDIUGWU, Patrick Igwe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Origin: Ebonyi Local Government Area: Onicha (LJkaba) Village\/Town: Amankpuma, (Jkawu Hon Elder Patrick Igwe Edediugwu. 56,isa member ofthe Ebonyi State House ofAssembly, a position hehas occupied since 1997. Hehasconsistently been in office, winning elections based on his popularity among those he has served diligently. He was elected in 1997. 1999 and 2003. He comes from Amankpuma Ukawu in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State Schools Attended Hon Patrick attended the follow ing institutions \u2022 St Nicholas School Anofia Akawu 1958 1964 ( left with Std IV Certificate) \u2022 St. Paul&#8217;s School Uburu 1964 1966 completed Primary School and passed Standard 6 \u2022 l\/zi High School Abakaliki WASC \u2022 St Charles College Onitsha- Teachers Grade 11 Certificate in 1979 Institute of Management and Technology ( 1MT) Enugu . HND 1983 Job Experiences \u2022 Classroom Teacher 1978 1996 \u2022 Joined Politics in 1997 and got fully involved in the Policy Making Body ofthe State. Heis a strong Catholic and hasparticipated in Christian Pilgrimage to Israel in 2001.1 le is happily married. Heloves farming, fishing andenjoys hard work. His Role Model is Chief Obasi Odefa an Industrialist Contributions to the Community Hon Edediugwu has made significant contribution to the development of his people. \u2022 The construction of a Wvc box culverts. \u2022 Classroom blocks at Okaleru Primary School Amankpuma Ukawu \u2022 Donation of Ten Bundles of Zinc to ten schools in Ukawu Community. Advice to Igbo Youths &#8211; &#8220;Be hardworking, honest an respectful lo parents andelders andthose inauthority &#8220;, To the Igbo leadership, he says, &#8220;avoid greedand excessive materialism &#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7561","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7561","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\/7561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}