Peter Otunuya Odili was born on August 15,1948 in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. He is a Nigerian politician who was the third governor of Rivers State in Nigeria from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2007. Odili is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Odili graduated from the Medical School of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and pursued post-graduate work in Tropical Medicine at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Dr. Peter Odili is married to Justice Mary Ukaego Odili (b. May 12, 1952).

In 1988/89, Odili was elected member and leader of Rivers State Delegates to the Constituent Assembly. In 1992, he was elected as the Deputy Governor of Rivers State. After the Nigerian Third Republic ended, he was again elected to the National Constitutional Conference and became the Conference Committee Chairman on State Creation. Odili thereafter became the National Secretary of the defunct Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN).

Odili was elected governor of Rivers State during the 1999 Rivers State gubernatorial election, and was reelected in April 2003.

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