Former Vice President of Nigeria
Family Name:     Ekwueme
Given Name:     Alex Ifeanyichukwu
Title:     Dr.
Dates:     born 21 Oct 1932
Gender:     Male
Country:     Nigeria
Positions

Positions listed are those which are held currently or have been held in the past. Dates are given wherever possible. Where there are no dates, positions are ordered alphabetically.
Member – Nigerian Constitutional Conference (1994 – 1995)
Vice President (1979 – 1983)
President (1965 – 1968)

He started primary school at the St John’s Anglican Central School, at Ekwulobia, then he proceeded to King’s College, Lagos. He was also a former student of the University of Washington, where he earned his bachelors …

FORMER Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, yesterday canvassed a shift in date for the presidential election from April 21 to 28 on account of last week’s death of erstwhile Ondo State governor and presidential candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Chief Adebayo Adefarati.

Ekwueme, immediate past chairman, Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in a three-page statement he signed and dated March 31, said the new date will be in compliance with provisions of both the Constitution and the Electoral Act 2006.

The issue of postponement of presidential poll has been a subject of interest debate since the demise of …