Dan Nwanyanwu

Worked with Union Bank of Nigeria from 1979 until he resigned in 1993 (February 1993 per Wikipedia) to complete his studies; he then read law at the University of Lagos. While at the bank he rose through the bank workers' union, NUBIFIE, to become its national president in 1989. A 2015 radio profile says he was at the bank for "30 years", which conflicts with the dated account kept here.

Rose through the bank workers' union while at Union Bank: local and branch secretary in Apapa, Lagos; chairman of the Union Bank unit's Domestic Committee from 1982, which made him a member of the union's National Executive Council; National Treasurer until 1989; then National President from 1989, which made him a member of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress. The end of his presidency was not found.

National Chairman of the Party for Social Democracy, renamed Labour Party, from 2004; re-elected in 2009. His term expired in December 2013 and the party's NEC extended it by nine months; he announced in September 2014 that he would not seek another term, and Abdulkadir Salam succeeded him at the Akure convention on 11 October 2014, after "10 years and eight months". Under him the party won the Ondo governorship with Olusegun Mimiko (2009). He held the post when he received the OFR in 2012.

Co-founded the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance with Raymond Dokpesi and unveiled its interim National Executive Committee in Abuja on Monday 5 June 2017. On 8 August 2017 the APDA National Working Committee announced that it had suspended Dokpesi, Nwanyanwu and Mainasara Ilo over an NEC meeting it called illegal, accusing them of trying to take the party to the PDP. By October 2018 he was national chairman of the Zenith Labour Party. APDA has no party record here.

Emerged as the Zenith Labour Party presidential candidate for 2023 at the party national convention / presidential primary in Abuja, attended by 185 delegates and monitored by INEC. The day (Wednesday 8 June 2022) is read from Leadership's report of 9 June 2022 ("yesterday"); the party had first planned the primary for 1 June 2022. No vote figures were reported. The same convention announced a change of the party's name to "Zenith Progressives Alliance", which did not take effect.

INEC final list of candidates (Presidential), published 2026-09-12 — SN 18; INEC name: NWANYANWU DANIEL DABERECHUKWU; age 66; male; qualification (as declared to INEC): FSLC WAEC LLB, LLM Adopted as ZLP consensus presidential candidate at the party national convention in Abuja on Saturday 30 May 2026 (reported by Leadership as a stakeholders' meeting); he is the party's national chairman.

Acting Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of Adekunle Ajasin University (Ondo State) in place of the substantive chairman, Erastus Akingbola: he had been acting for more than two years by October 2011 (so from about 2009) and still held the post at the university's 3rd convocation in December 2012. The university's ASUU branch passed a vote of no confidence in him at a congress on 31 October 2011, accusing him of overstaying the six-month acting period and sidelining internal council members; no response by him was found. The end date was not found.