President Bola Tinubu and the Former President, Muhammadu Buhari, have extended their deepest condolences to the Onu family members over the passing of Chief Ogbonnaya Onu at age 72.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement on X, said the President mourned the passing away of Chief Onu on Thursday.
The President expressed shock over the passing away of a luminous star in Nigeria’s political firmament. The first civilian governor of Abia State, former Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, a principal draughtsman in the founding of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and a valiant partner in the victory of the party in the 2015 elections.
Most importantly, the president professed his celebration of life of an accomplished scholar, first-class engineer, a man of proven integrity; defiant to indiscipline, but ever yielding to the highest standards of rectitude.
Tinubu also affirmed that Chief Onu epitomises Nigeria in concord, in wholeness, as the late statesman believed in and defended Nigeria’s unity, advocated peace, and promoted fellowship across the Niger.
The Former President, Muhammadu Buhari also joined the Onu family members, friends and associates of the deceased and the entire nation in mourning the demise of a notable politician, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the first civilian governor of Abia state and former minister of Science, Technology and Innovation under his administration.
In his reaction to the news of the death of the former chairman of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), a party that once fielded him as a presidential candidate, Buhari said the nation had lost “one of its most outstanding scientific minds and intellectuals.
“He was an intellectual giant. My heart goes out to his family, the government and people of Abia State and the country at large. May his soul rest in peace.”
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President Tinubu therefore prayed to God Almighty to grant repose to the gentle soul of this great leader.
