Career
Dyegh previously served as a member, Committee on Appropriations, Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Education, Gas Resources, Inter-Parliamentary Relations, Science and Technology in the 7th National Assembly. Dyegh ran for a second term and retained his seat, following the announcement of March 28th National Assembly Polls in the 2015 General Elections in which he polled 67,463 votes to defeat his challenger, Bernard Nenger of the Peoples" Democratic Party (PDP) with 26,329 votes.
Dyegh was born at Gboko.
He received elementary schooling at LGEA Primary School Gboko, earning First School Leaving Certificate before proceeding to Mbawuar Secondary School Ihugh in Vandeikya Local Government Area, for Senior Secondary School Certificate.
He then studied at the Benue State University for both undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. Dyegh obtained a Doctorate at the same institution, making him the first and the only House of Representatives Member to have represented a constituency with the highest educational qualification from Benue State, a record that is yet to be matched.
Dyegh garnered political prominence when he ran successfully on the platform of the then main opposition party in Nigeria - the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the House of Representatives seat to represent Gboko/Tarka Federal Constituency. He polled 85,917 votes to defeat his main challenger, Barrister
Tony Ijohor who ran under the umbrella of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but polled only 30,377 votes, less than half of Dyegh"son
Dyegh is known for awarding scholarships to students of higher colleges thereby, ending scholarship drought among the students of college age in his constituency. He donates large sums of money to the poor - a quality that marks him out as a philanthropist. Dyegh has sponsored the Nigerian Electoral Offences Commission Bill, 2011.
The bill seeks establishment of an Electoral Offenses Commission but received only its first reading on 7 February 2012.
