Background
His father, Doctor Samuel Imoke was a medical doctor who became a cabinet minister and leader of Parliament in the former Eastern Region. Liyel Imoke was born on 10 July 1961 at Ibadan in the then Western Region of Nigeria.
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Education
Liyel Imoke attended Mary Knoll College, Okuku, Ogoja and then the Federal Government College, Enugu (1973–1977) for his secondary education. He then studied Law at the University of Buckingham, England, gaining an Bachelor of Laws degree in 1985, and then studied at the American University in Washington, District of Columbia He completed his legal education at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, in 1988.
Career
Liyel Imoke is an Igbo from Agbo Clan in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River State. He obtained a bachelor"s degree in International Relations and Economics at the University of Maryland in the United States in 1982. where he gained a master"s degree in Law. Liyel Imoke practiced law in Washington, Doctorate. C. and Lagos between 1982 and 1992.
In 1992, Liyel Imoke was elected a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the age of 30 during the Ibrahim Babangida transition government.
His term ended with the dissolution of the government in November 1993 by the military regime headed by General Sani Abacha. Between 1993 and 1999, he was a Managing Consultant at Telsat Communications, Lagos.
Executive Chairman of Value Mart Nigeria, Lagos, and Executive Director of Trident Petroleum and Gas, Lagos. In 1999, he was appointed a Special Adviser on Public Utilities by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was Executive Chairman of the Special Board charged with winding down the Oil Minerals Producing Areas Development Commission.
He was Chairman of Technical Board of the National Electric Power Authority. In July 2003, Liyel Imoke was appointed Federal, and for a while was also Federal Minister of Education. Imoke implemented reforms laid out in the Nigerian Power Sector Reform Acting of 2005, leading to establishment of the Nigerian Energy Regulatory Commission (North American Electric Reliability Corporation), the Rural Electrification Agency (Rural Electrification Administration) and the unbundling of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA).
In 2008, the House of Representatives set up a panel to look into how $16 billion for the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP) was disbursed, asking for testimony by Liyel Imoke and Olusegun Agagu, who had also served as The panel cleared Imoke of wrongdoing.
In July 2008 the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said that Liyel Imoke was under investigation. Imoke had lost his constitutional immunity after his election as governor of Cross River state had been annulled.
In April 2007, Liyel Imoke successfully ran for governor of Cross River State on the People"s Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 2007.
The election was annulled by an Election Appeal Tribunal in July 2008.
He was elected again in a re-run on 23 August 2008.
Membership
He is a member of the People"s Democratic Party (PDP).
