Serge Michel Odzoki

Serge Michel Odzoki (born 29 December 1948) is a Congolese politician. A member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he is a journalist by profession and worked for years as a diplomat before serving in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Sports and Youth from December 2007 to September 2009. He has been a Deputy in the National Assembly since 2009 and Spokesman of the PCT since 2011.

Biography Odzoki was born in Ouesso. He studied in France and earned a degree in journalism. Back in Congo, he worked as a journalist; He received 32.67% of the vote in the first round against 22.28% for Yvon Norbert Gambeg of the Club 2002-PUR; in the second round of voting, he defeated Gambeg, receiving 62.65% of the vote. He was subsequently appointed to the government as Minister of Sports and Youth on 30 December 2007.

Odzoki was dismissed from the government on 15 September 2009; he was succeeded at the Ministry of Sports by Jacques-Yvon Ndolou on 21 September 2009. He then returned to his seat in the National Assembly. At the PCT's Sixth Extraordinary Congress in July 2011, he was elected to the PCT's 51-member Political Bureau and designated as the PCT's Secretary for Communication and Spokesman.

In the July 2012 parliamentary election, Odzoki was re-elected to the National Assembly as the PCT candidate in the first constituency of Ewo; he won the seat in the first round of voting, receiving 60.43% of the vote.

During the campaign for the September 2014 local elections, Odzoki was dispatched to Likouala Department to campaign for the PCT's candidates there.