Cole Tonye Patrick

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Born1 January 1968 (age 58)

StateRivers →

GenderMale

EducationUniversity of Lagos, University of Brasília, Harvard Business School

BirthplaceAbonnema

OccupationPolitician

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Cole Tonye Patrick is a Nigerian politician from Rivers. They have contested 1 election (1 loss) across 1 party, receiving 95K total votes. Most recent: 2023 Gubernatorial Elections as All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate.

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2023

APCLOST

2023 Gubernatorial Elections (Rivers) →95,274 votes · 19.69% of totalView candidacy →

Biography

Patrick Dele-Cole (born 1940) is a Nigerian politician, journalist, historian, and diplomat who in 1976 became the managing director of the Daily Times.

He was also a presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the early 1990s, and was Nigeria's ambassador to Argentina and Brazil.

He is author of the book Modern Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos.

He attended the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he earned a first-class honours degree.

He also studied at Cambridge University.

As a managing director of the Daily Times in 1976, he restored the paper's former influence to become one of Africa's largest at that time, and brought in influential journalists, including Dele Giwa and Dr. Stanley Macebuh.

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