Abe Magnus Ngei

Magnus Ngei Abe (born 24 May 1965) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer from Nchia in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State. He attended St. Patrick College, Ikot-Ansa, Calabar, and Akpor Grammar School, Ozuoba. After earning an LL.B in law, he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987 and began work as a Pupil State Counsel with the Federal Ministry of Justice in Lagos State before moving into private legal practice with Okocha & Okocha, Manuchim Chambers, and later as a managing partner with Etim-Inyang, Abe in Port Harcourt.

Abe entered politics in 1999 when he was elected to the Rivers State House of Assembly and served as Minority Leader. He defected to the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) in 2003 and served as Rivers State Commissioner of Information from 2003 to 2007 under Governor Peter Odili, then became Secretary to the State Government when Governor Chibuike Amaechi took office in May 2007. In the April 2011 elections, he won 154,218 votes against Dr. Nomate Toate Kpea of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), who polled 34,978; he returned to the Senate in a December 2016 rerun after the earlier poll was invalidated by the court. He lost a return bid in 2015, was succeeded in 2019 by Hon. Barry Mpigi, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) on 29 January 2014, sought but did not secure the APC governorship nomination in 2019, and in January 2025 was appointed by President Bola Tinubu as board chairman of the National Agency for the Great Green Walls.

In the 2023 Rivers State governorship election, Abe contested as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate with Ogbonnaya Patricia Wudhiga as his running mate, and lost the election.