Hon. Sir, Edward Pwajok SAN, LB, KSG, Plateau State Labour Party governorship running mate was born to the family of Da. P D Pwajok, KSM and Ngwo Veronica Pwajok all of blessed memory in Kuru on 21, November, 1965.

Barrister Edward Pwajok Started his early school at kindergarten in K/ Vom then Bishop’s school in Jos, thereafter moved to attend Fatima Private School and passed out in class 5, where he obtained his first school leaving certificate in 1976.

Pwajok Did his secondary school education in St Joseph’s college Vom from 1976 but later changed to GSS Kuru where he completed in 1982 and obtain WAEC as the best graduating arts student and represented Plateau state in the national schools competition having emerged tops in the all schools quiz competition in Plateau state.

For his love for education and a better future, he went further and attended the university of Jos where he study law and went further to the Nigeria Law school Lagos before proceeding for his NYSC which he did in Kaduna .

Edward Pwajok got married to his wife Mrs Veronica Longtang Pwajok in 2008 and the union is blessed with three children.

He has served his community , the Church and held positions in Government at different levels . He was one time BYM legal adviser, BECO financial secretary . All between 2004-2006.
An active Politician , he bought the form to contest for the chairmanship of Jos south LGC in 1993 and this ambition was scuttled by General Abacha’s coup in November, 1993 days before the primaries.

Barrister Edward Pwajok was elected state legal adviser of the PDP in 2005, and later was appointed the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice by Chief Michael Bot Mang in January 2007 and again appointed by Da Jonah Jang in the same capacity in 2007. He was reappointed for the third time to the same office in 2011 before he resigned to contest the elections to the House of Representatives in 2014. This made him the longest serving Attorney General in Plateau state.

He served Jos south/ Jos east in the House of Representatives between 2015-2019. While in the house, even as a first timer, he was first made chairman of the house committee on human rights and later the chairman of the strategic committee on rules and business.
Because of his distinguished legal practice, he was elevated to the prestigious rank of Seniour Advocate of Nigeria in 2016 becoming the first Berom to be so elevated and indeed the first indigene of the northern zone of the state to be so elevated.

Pwajok was made a life Bencher , the body of the highest distinction in the legal profession, the first indigenous practicing Lawyer from Plateau state to be so appointed in 2018.
The catholic Pontiff awarded him the highest papal medal of the Knighthood of the order of St Gregory the Great, KSG, in 2020.

He is widely travelled having gone to almost all the continents and his hobbies include reading, traveling, playing table tennis, trekking and watching TV particularly news, sports and documentaries.

Currently Barrister Edward Pwajok SAN KSG, is now the running mate to the Labour Party Gubernatorial Candidate in Plateau State to deputised Dr. Patrick Sunday Dakum who is the Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Plateau State.

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An Epoch profile of Plateau LP Governorship running mate Edward Pwajok SAN, LB, KSG