Sen. Ayogu Eze (born 23 November 1958) was elected Senator for the Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State, Nigeria, taking office on June 5, 2007. He is currently a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC but was elected to the senate under the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Education Sen. Eze attended the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu, where he obtained Higher National Diploma in Mass Communication. He proceeded to International Institute for Journalism, IIJ Berlin, Germany, where he graduated on top of the G55 student stream, comprising working journalists from about 14 African countries. He also studied for a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Lagos. He has also successfully attended the executive education programmes of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he studied “Leadership for the 21st Century: chaos, conflict and courage”; Säid Business School of the Oxford University, where he studied “The Oxford Programme on Negotiation” as well as the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge, where the focus of study was “Leadership in Parliamentary Oversight Programme”. Early career He had a very active journalism career, working as a reporter and staff writer with the prestigious The Guardian newspaper of Nigeria between 1983 and 1989, becoming the head of the Insight Team of the newspaper’s features desk before being deployed to head the Guardian Express, an evening paper from the stable, where he broke the news of the deportation of an intellectual and a critic of the military government, Patrick Wilmot, by the then Nigerian military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. He later headed the Advance Desk of the newspaper, charged with producing the first edition of The Guardian newspaper, circulated mainly in the eastern and northern parts of the country. In 1989, he moved to edit the Platform Magazine, published by late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo in Lagos. He left the Platform Magazine in 1991 to join yet another flagship of the journalism profession, this time in the magazine sector. He joined the Newswatch magazine, easily Nigeria’s most prestigious magazine, as Associate Editor in 1991, leaving there in 1992 to join the Enugu State government as Special Adviser in General Duties to Governor Okwesilieze Nwodo. After that government was overthrown by General Sani Abacha in November 1992, Sen. Eze went into private life, trying his hands on produce trade and real estate business. Political career At the threshold of