Peter Odili:

This is not the first time the former Governor of River State will be appointed to serve in such a conference. In 1992, he was member of the River State delegation to the Constituent Assembly. After the Third Republic ended, he was again elected to the National Constitutional Conference and became the Conference Committee Chairman on State Creation. Mr Odili is the former National Secretary of the defunct Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN). He is 66 years old and appointed under the elder state men category. Mr Odili is alleged by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to have enriched himself from the treasury of River State while in office as a governor. The case against him is in a stalemate as he was able to obtain an dubious order of perpetual injunction from a High Court stopping the EFCC from prosecuting him for corruption.