29 Facts About Samuel Ogbemudia

Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia was a Nigerian army officer and politician.

Samuel Ogbemudia was military Governor of the Mid-West State, later renamed Bendel State, part of which in turn later became Edo State.

Samuel Ogbemudia is noted as one of the founding fathers of the very prestigious University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

Osaigbovo Ogbemudia was born in Benin City on 17 September 1932, he was named after his grandfather.

In Edo language, the name Samuel Ogbemudia can be inferred to mean "this family has come to stay".

Samuel Ogbemudia attended Benin Baptist School, and then the government school, Victoria, in the Cameroons.

Samuel Ogbemudia joined the Nigeria army in 1956, training at Teshie, Ghana and at Netheravon and Salisbury Plain in England.

Samuel Ogbemudia attended the Mons Officer Cadet School at Aldershot, England, in 1960, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1961.

Samuel Ogbemudia attended the United States army special welfare school at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1962.

Samuel Ogbemudia served with the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Congo for 16 months, and served in Tanzania in 1964.

Samuel Ogbemudia was appointed as an instructor to the Nigerian Military School, Zaria in 1964.

Ejoor was able to escape to Lagos while Samuel Ogbemudia briefly went underground organizing a resistance movement composed of people disaffected by the invasion.

Samuel Ogbemudia later left for Army Headquarters, Lagos and joined the Murtala Mohammed led Second Infantry Division on a counterattacking mission to Midwest.

On 20 September 1967, troops led by Samuel Ogbemudia seized Benin city from Biafran forces.

Samuel Ogbemudia was appointed Military administrator of Mid-West state in September, 1967 following the liberation of state from the secessionist Biafran forces.

Colonel, Samuel Ogbemudia was appointed Military Governor of the state on 26 October 1967.

Samuel Ogbemudia built the Ogbe sports stadium, now named the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, and in August 1973 he commissioned the three-story National Museum in Benin City.

Samuel Ogbemudia was investigated by a panel in 1975 but felt he could not receive a fair trial because the head of the panel had been relieved of his previous position by Samuel Ogbemudia.

Samuel Ogbemudia was in London during the July 1975 coup and helped with renovations of Gowon's London abode after the ex-president went into exile.

Between 1987 and 1989, Samuel Ogbemudia was Chairman of the Nigerian Sports Commission, in 1989, Babangida appointed him as the Sole Administrator of the struggling Nigerian Railway Corporation.

Samuel Ogbemudia was quoted as saying he would die for Abacha.

In December 2004, Samuel Ogbemudia was said to have agreed that Anthony Anenih should nominate his choice of governor for Edo State.

Samuel Ogbemudia said he did not want a situation where one senatorial district in the state had a permanent hold on the position of governor.

In December 2006, Samuel Ogbemudia expressed support for the presidential bid of Dr Mohammed Buba Marwa.

Samuel Ogbemudia spoke critically of earlier governors, such as Chief Lucky Igbinedion.

In July 2009, Samuel Ogbemudia was leader of a PDP faction that was supporting Prof.

In October 2009, Samuel Ogbemudia failed to attend the unity rally of the party in Edo state organised by Anthony Anenih.

On 9 March 2017, Sam Samuel Ogbemudia announced the death of his father to journalists at the deceased's residence.

Samuel Ogbemudia said his father died the previous day, at a private hospital in Lagos.