Ezekiel Alebua

{{Short description|Solomon Islands politician (1947–2022)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = Ezekiel Alebua

| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|post-noms=PC|size=100%}}

| office = Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands

| term_start = 1 December 1986

| term_end = 28 March 1989

| predecessor = Sir Peter Kenilorea

| successor = Solomon Mamaloni

| monarch = Elizabeth II

| governor-general = Baddeley Devesi
George Lepping

| party = Solomon Islands United Party

| birth_date = June 1947

| birth_place = Avuavu, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|8|7|1947|6|df=y}}

| death_place = Haimatua, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

| office2 = Foreign Minister of the Solomon Islands

| term_start2 = 1981

| term_end2 = 1982

| office3 = Member of Parliament for East Guadalcanal

| term_start3 = 1980

| term_end3 = 1987

}}

Ezekiel Alebua {{Post-nominals|post-noms=PC}} (June 1947{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6SUhBV5Qw8C&dq=Ezekiel+Alebua+June+1947&pg=PA98 | title=Footprints in the Tasimauri Sea: A Biography of Dominiko Alebua | isbn=9789820203365 | last1=Kabutaulaka | first1=Tarcisius Tara | year=2002 }} – 7 August 2022) was the prime minister of the Solomon Islands from 1 December 1986 until 28 March 1989.{{cite book|title=Islands business| year=1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9C2AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=5 January 2011|publisher=News (South Pacific) Limited}} He served as Foreign Minister from 1981 to 1982. Alebua was the premier of Guadalcanal province from 1998 to 2003, and antagonised some people in that area for not supporting moves to declare that province independent.[https://archive.today/20130202154151/http://www.solomonstarnews.com/news/national/12730-alebua-denies-tension-involvement- "Alebua denies tension involvement"]; Solomon Star News: 4 November 2011

In July 1988, Alebua was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and was thus entitled to the prefix "The Right Honourable" for life.{{Cite web |title=Leigh Rayment: Privy Counsellors 1969–present |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil4.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022558/http://leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil4.htm |archive-date=7 June 2008 |url-status=usurped |access-date=8 August 2022}}

He was wounded in an assassination attempt by Harold Keke's group on 1 June 2001. During his prominence in national politics during the 1980s, Alebua was a member of the conservative Solomon Islands United Party.

Alebua died on 7 August 2022, following a prolonged illness.{{Cite web|url=https://www.solomontimes.com/news/former-prime-minister-ezekiel-alebua-dies/12062|title=Former Prime Minister Ezekiel Alebua Dies|work=Solomon Times|date=7 August 2022|access-date=7 August 2022}}