21 Facts About Enyinnaya Abaribe

Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe was born on 1 March 1955 and is a Nigerian politician who has served as the senator representing Abia South senatorial district since 2007.

Enyinnaya Abaribe previously served as deputy governor of Abia State from 1999 until his resignation and subsequent impeachment in March 2003.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was the minority leader in the 9th senate.

Enyinnaya Abaribe said Buhari had made a promise while campaigning for the presidency in 2015 that Nigerians should stone him out of government should he fail to improve the security situation in the country.

Enyinnaya Abaribe earned his WASSCE from Government College Umuahia in 1974.

Enyinnaya Abaribe went on to the University of Benin, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 and a master's degree in economics in 1982.

Enyinnaya Abaribe lectured at Edo State University from 1982 until 1985.

Enyinnaya Abaribe became Abia State's Deputy Governor after Orji Uzor Kalu's 1999 election to the Governorship.

The House of Assembly formally voted him out of office several days later, in a move Enyinnaya Abaribe called "medicine after death".

Enyinnaya Abaribe was succeeded as deputy governor by Eric Acho Nwakanma.

Enyinnaya Abaribe ran for the governorship on the All Nigeria Peoples Party platform in 2003, but lost to Kalu.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was elected to the national Senate in 2007 on a People's Democratic Party ticket; Eric Acho Nwakanma of the PPA challenged the validity of the election.

Enyinnaya Abaribe is Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs.

Enyinnaya Abaribe is a member of the Committees on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Senate Services, and Works.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was reelected for Abia South in the April 2011 election.

Enyinnaya Abaribe is currently the chairman Senate Committee on Media and Publicity.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was re-elected to the Nigerian 8th senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015 and is currently representing the people of Abia South Senatorial District in the upper chamber.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was re-elected in 2023 Election in an election victory over other candidates with a 49,693 vote poll to win Abia South senatorial district.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was named the chairman of the Senate committee on power of the 10th senate on 8 August 2023.

On 22 June 2018, Enyinnaya Abaribe was arrested by the Department of State Security Services at his barber shop located at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja for his alleged links with the Indigenous People of Biafra being one of the sureties to their leader Nnamdi Kanu, he was taken to his house for a search and was later taken to the DSS detention in Abuja.

Enyinnaya Abaribe was released the next Tuesday, 26 June 2018 on bail.