Amadi Ikwechegh | |
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Military Governor of Imo State | |
In office 29 August 1986 – 2 September 1989 | |
Preceded by | Allison Amakoduna Madueke |
Succeeded by | Anthony Oguguo |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 February 1951 Bende, Abia State, Nigeria |
Died | 10 November 2009 | (aged 58)
Commodore Amadi Guy Ikwechegh // ⓘ(25 February 1951 – 10 November 2009) was a Nigerian naval officer who was appointed military governor of Imo State from 1986 to 1989 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.[1][2]
Amadi Ikwechegh was born on 25 February 1951 in Amakpo, Igbere in Bende, Abia State.[3] He attended Township School in Aba and the Nigerian Military School, Zaria (1963 to 1966), and attended the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna in 1971. He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in 1974. He then studied at Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, England, the Royal Hydrographic School, Australia and the Naval School of Oceanography, USA. He attended the Armed Forces Command & Staff College, Jaji, and also earned a masters in Strategic Studies from the University of Ibadan.[4]
He was retired in June 1999, along with all other military officers who had held political offices. He then went into marine related business in Port Harcourt. Amadi Ikwechegh died on 10 November 2009 after a protracted illness following a stroke he suffered in 2007. Chief Theodore Orji, governor of Abia State from May 2007, was his senior assistant secretary when Ikwechegh was governor of old Imo State. After Ikwechegh's death, Orji described him as an intelligent and no-nonsense administrator.[3]