Soludo’s New Chief Of Staff Is Two-term London Borough Mayor

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New Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has just announced three more appointees, prominent of which is two-term Mayor of the London Borough of Brent, Ernest Nnaama Ezeajughi as Chief of Staff.

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Ezeajughi was elected Mayor of the London Borough of Brent, population 331,000. He was born in 1960 in Awgbu Town in southern Nigeria, Anambra State, the son of Sir Simeon Okeke Ezeajughi, an educator and prominent politician. After attendance at Aguata High School, Ezeajughi matriculated at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (Unizik) at its main campus in the city of Awka where he was active in student government and studied medical microbiology before graduating in 1998.

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Upon completing a mandatory one-year term with the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) he worked in his family’s business, Koval Linkworld Agencies Ltd. Ezeajughi left for Brent, England, in 2004 to reunite with his wife. He acquired his Master of Science degree in environment health management at Kings College London, then was employed at several organizations, among them the Royal Mail, Public Health England and the Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA).

Still attracted to politics, he became a founding member of the British chapter of Nigeria’s All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) party and was its chairman from 2010 to 2012. In May 2014, Ezeajughi, also a member of the Labour Party, won a seat on the Brent Council representing Stonebridge ward. Reelected in 2018, months later he was elected Deputy Mayor of Brent. He has indicated that his affinity for politics is owed to the influence of both his Nigerian father and South Africa’s legendary Nelson Mandela.

When Ezeajughi was voted Mayor for a two-term by his fellow councilors on April 16, 2019, on hand to see him sworn into office on May 1, 2020 were Nigerian dignitaries, most notably Ebere Obiano, wife of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State.

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