Matthew Ifeanyi Nwagwu

Matthew Ifeanyi Nwagwu is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Imo North constituency of Imo State, Nigeria in the April 2011 national elections. He ran on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform.

Matthew Ifeanyi Nwagwu
Senator for Imo North
In office
May 2011 – June 2015
Preceded bySylvester Anyanwu
Personal details
DiedNil
NationalityNigerian
Political partyPeople's Democratic Party (PDP)
ProfessionDiplomat / Politician

Background

In November 2001, Matthew Ifeanyi Nwagwu was Nigeria's deputy representative to the World Trade Organization's General Council. He was highly critical of a draft treaty to be discussed at Doha, saying "The text generally accommodates in total the interests of developed countries while disregarding the concerns of the developing and least developed countries".[1] Speaking in July 2004 on behalf of the Africa Group, Nwagwu said the group expected an all-inclusive and transparent process in further work on the draft decision to be adopted at the WTO General Council meeting of 27–29 July.[2]

Senate

In the January 2011 PDP primaries for the Okigwe senatorial zone, Matthew Nwagwu won with 2,128 votes, ahead of the previous Secretary to the Government of Imo State, Chief Cosmas Iwu, who gained 129 votes.[3] Cosmas, younger brother of former Independent National Electoral Commission Chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, had resigned his appointment in order to compete.[4] Nwagwu, who had a Bachelor of Science degree, was aged 67 at this time.[5] In the 6 April 2011 election, former ambassador Nwagwu was elected as Senator of Imo North with 60,449 votes, ahead of runner up Chief Cosmas Nkemjika Iwu who had moved to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and won 47,258 votes.[6]

In a 2011 interview, Nwagwu expressed desire to help with the image of Nigerians abroad, citing problems such as not paying their debts and being involved with drugs.[7]

gollark: But food can't be *that* energetically expensive to digest or it wouldn't work as food.
gollark: Well, that's digestion, not eating.
gollark: Celery.
gollark: I assume it's negligible, they're light and you just have to move your limbs a bit of distance.
gollark: I suppose if you do that a *lot*, you probably reach a point where you can't eat cereal bars rapidly enough.

References
  1. Daniel Pruzin (1 November 2001). "WTO Chair Defends Draft Declaration against Developing Countries"" Criticisms". International Trade Daily. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  2. Martin Khor and Goh Chien Yen (20 July 2004). "Developing Countries' Initial Responses to the Draft July Package". Third World Network. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  3. "PDP ticket: How Senators, Reps won and lost". Vanguard. 11 January 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  4. "Anyanwu, Izunaso crash out of Imo PDP senate primaries". News at Nine. 9 January 2011. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  5. "Candidates for Senatorial Election 2011". INEC. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  6. "Collated Senate results". INEC. Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  7. "AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SESSION WITH SEN. AMB. MATTHEW IFEANYI NWAGWU". The National Nigerian Assembly. Archived from the original on 27 April 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.


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