Prof Bartolomeo Nnaji, today at his country home in Nkanu East LG announced his readiness to contest the 2023 Enugu state governorship election on the platform of PDP.
Nnaji is a Nigerian scientist, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. He was born in Enugu State, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John’s University, and then proceeded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for post-graduate studies.
He joined the faculty at University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the director and a founder of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University. He was made a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics: Computer Aided Design, Robotics and Computer Aided Engineering. Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate has a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept.
He is also the founder of the first indigenous owned power generating company in Nigeria and was also a former minister for Science and Technology in the country.
His company, Geometric Power Limited
Geometric Power is a leading pioneer in the Nigerian power sector. Aiming to provide effective solutions to the countries growing energy needs.
Prof Nnaji is the first African to become Director of the United States National Science Foundation-endowed Centre for Scientific Excellence.
He is also the first Nigerian to win the Baker Distinguished Research Award which is considered the equivalent of the Nobel prize in Industrial Engineering.
He is also the first Nigerian to be honoured by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as the African Scientist of the Year.
The first Nigerian to build a power plant. Presently, Geometric Power is up in Abia supplying uninterrupted power to about 9 LGAs.
Bart is a two time minister – Minister of Science and Technology in 1993 and Minister of Power in 2011. He was also the Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Power
Today at his country home, a group under the name, Coalition Of Friends of Prof Bart Nnaji who purchased the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms presented the forms to him urging him to step out and contest the Enugu governorship Election come 2023.