BREAKING: Aged Abia Governor And Ex-Science And Technology Minister, Ogbonnaya Onu Dies At 72

One of his kinsmen in Ebonyi who confirmed his death to SaharaReporters talked about the mild governor had been unwell for a whereas and his household had planned to wing him in one more nation after the Sallah wreck.

A gentle Abia Divulge Governor, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu is needless.

SaharaReporters learnt that 72-year-historical Onu died on Thursday morning at an Abuja hospital.

One of his kinsmen in Ebonyi who confirmed his death to SaharaReporters talked about the mild governor had been unwell for a whereas and his household had planned to wing him in one more nation after the Sallah wreck.

“He has been sick for a whereas this year and his household talked about they’d wing him in one more nation to regain larger scientific medication for him but he may possibly presumably no longer make it till then,” the source talked about.

Onu, who hailed from Ebonyi Divulge, change into once the first civilian governor of Abia Divulge and Nigeria’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation from November 2015 till his resignation in 2022.

SaharaReporters learnt that his chums and relatives dangle thronged his Abuja contrivance since listening to the news to explicit their condolences to his household.

After working as a trainer and later as a lecturer on the University of Port Harcourt, Ogbonnaya Onu started his political profession as an aspirant for a senatorial seat in the historical Imo Divulge on the platform of the Nationwide Occasion of Nigeria (NPN).

He contested for the dilemma of Governor of Abia Divulge in 1991 beneath the umbrella of the Nationwide Republican Convention and gained.

He change into once sworn in because the first executive governor of the suppose in January 1992 and change into once the first chairman of the Conference of Nigerian elected governors.

In 1999, he change into once the presidential candidate of the All Folk’s Occasion but relinquished the dilemma to Olu Falae after his event merged with the Alliance for Democracy.

Falae lost to Olusegun Obasanjo in the presidential election.

Onu later grew to alter into the nationwide chairman of the All Nigerian Folk’s Occasion.

In 2013, the ANPP merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Revolutionary Commerce (CPC), Democratic Folk’s Occasion (DPP) and a few participants of the All Progressives Spacious Alliance (APGA) to originate the All Progressives Congress (APC), the ruling event in Nigeria.

In November 2015, he change into once appointed Minister of Science and Technology by then-President Muhammadu Buhari. He resigned his appointment in 2022.