278:. Ugochukwu was appointed as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Orientation and Public Affairs. He spearheaded a "National Rebirth" campaign aimed at instilling patriotic virtues into a national psyche ravaged by years of political instability and corruption. It was on this platform that Ugochukwu launched "The Nigerian Declaration of Human Responsibilities", which declares in part: "This Character on Human Responsibilities… Seeks to bring freedom and responsibility into a better balance, to highlight and increase awareness of the obligation which we owe each other and to our nation."
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magazine, where he wrote extensively on development issues, to provide a better understanding of the
African debt crisis. He eventually returned to Nigeria to become the Editor in Chief of the
389:(SSS) bodyguards, who suffered gunshot wounds through his head and hands. Ugochukwu, the PDP candidate and frontrunner in the election, blamed the attack on his political opponents in the
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Appeals Court. However, on 11 February 2009 an appeal court in Port
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gubernatorial race. In 2006, the
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