Nkeiruka Onyejeocha

Nkeiruka Chidubem Onyejocha (born 23 November 1969) is a Nigerian politician and a ranking lawmaker in NigeriaÕs Federal House of Representatives. She represents Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State. Onyejocha is an active member of the Nigeria federal parliament and often contributes brilliantly to debates on critical national issues in the house. She has sponsored several bills and moved motions that have improved the lives of ordinary citizens and help safeguard their rights. In 2017 she sponsored a bill that makes emergency treatment of victims of gunshot obligatory and compulsory for hospitals without demanding or delaying treatment to first obtain police reports before commencing treatment in emergency situations. Onyejocha was first elected in 2007 on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP then NigeriaÕs ruling party. She defected to All Progressives Congress, APC in 2018 after coming under intense pressure from her former party leaders to drop her ambition for a return ticket to the house. In 2019, she won her re-election bid for a fourth term in the NigeriaÕs Green Chamber. She is one of the longest serving members of the house. In 2019, Onyejocha contested for the position of speaker of the male dominated NigeriaÕs Federal House of Representatives against Femi Gbajabiamila from Lagos State nominated for the position by their party – All Progressives Congress, APC. Onyejocha major campaign issue was to zone speakership position to her region _ south-east of Nigeria for balanced distribution of key federal powers among the six geo-political zones of the country. But she stepped down less than 24 hours to the election. Onyejocha was previously Executive Transition Chairman of Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State in 2002. In 2003 she served in the executive cabinet of Abia State as commissioner for Resource Management and Manpower Development.