Felix Ibru
| Olorogun Felix Ovudoroye Ibru | |
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| Governor of Delta State | |
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In office 2 January 1992 – 17 November 1993 |
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| Senator for Delta Central | |
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In office May 2003 – May 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Aghogho Brume |
| Succeeded by | Adego Erhiawarie Eferakeya |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 December 1935 Ughelli North LGA, Delta State, Nigeria |
| Died | 12 March 2016 (aged 80) |
Felix Ovudoroye Ibru (7 December 1935 – 12 March 2016) was a Nigerian architect, Senator and the first democratically elected Governor of Delta State. Until his death he held the position of President General of the Urhobo Progressive Union (UPU). As a traditional chieftain of his homeland, Ibru bore the tribal honorific Olorogun and often used it as a pre-nominal style. This title is also borne by many of the members of his large family in the same way.
Ibru was born on 7 December 1935 at Agbarha-Otor in the Ughelli North local government area of Delta State to Chief Peter Epete Ibru and Chief (Mrs). Janet Omotogor Ibru, the second of seven children. His brother Michael Ibru is the founder of the Ibru Organization, a major conglomerate. He was educated at Yaba Methodist School, and later Igbobi College where he was Head Boy in 1955. He won the Elder Dempster Lines Scholarship to travel to the United Kingdom. After his secondary school education at Igbobi College, Ibru proceeded to the Nottingham School of Architecture in England where he qualified as an Architect in 1962.
While a student in Nottingham, he was elected the first Black President of the British Council with responsibility for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire. As a result, he was presented to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace in 1960. Shortly after his qualification as an architect in 1962, he worked briefly with the Jewish Agency SOCHNUT, on various projects relating to farm settlements (kibbutzim and moshavim) and prefabricated buildings in Jerusalem and Haifa. He later enrolled at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology for post-graduate studies and qualified with an MSc (Arch) in 1963. He returned to Nigeria at the end of that year and took up an appointment with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education as the first resident Lecturer in Architecture at the Yaba College of Technology.
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