A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has said that the late Ogbonaya Onu was displaced from being the President of Nigeria in 1999.

DAILY POST reported that Onu, an All Progressives Congress, APC presidential aspirant in the 2023 election, died on Thursday.

Onu, who was the first civilian governor in Abia State, died in Abjua on Thursday.

Sani, a former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central Senatoral District in the 8th assembly, while paying tribute to the former minister, said Ogbonnaya “could have been Nigeria’s President in 1999 after he won the APP primaries in Kaduna, attended by the likes of the late Ikemba of Nnewi Chief Ojukwu.

“He was deliberately displaced after a midnight merger with the then AD. The military wanted Obasanjo and Falae.

"The late Chief Onu is one of Nigeria’s most distinguished,decent and disciplined political figures in history.

"He has been an influential figure in Nigeria’s politics for over four decades. A Senator in the second republic, a Governor in the third republic and a presidential candidate, party chairman and minister in the fourth republic.

“He is a rare breed politician who lived as unstained, untainted and unblemished like his white apparel. He was a man who lived and served his country with decorum and impactful anonymity.

"He was a true patriot whose nationalist credentials can’t be faulted by any section of the country. Onu was an unnoticed and unappreciated gentleman and national leader.In words and in deeds, he lived above politics of rancour and controversy.

In 1999, the outgoing military wanted power to shift to the South West. Onu was a simple man.

“His known residence in Asokoro remains the one rented for him by his party, the ANPP, when he was elected its chairman. He remained there throughout his tenure as minister.

May his soul rest in peace.”

LagosFc:
keep on telling yourself that lie in your village meeting which mkney Onu get to fund the party? Dey play, we all know how Apc was formed and the heavy weight involved in it formation....Maybe were referring to biafran party Apuga

peleson1:
True..

Onu was the originator of apc.

He technically removed PDP from power with his proposal of forming a merger mega party apc but the crefit of forming apc has been stolen and given to other people with propaganda.

rantingpigs:
@franchasofficia....

It was actually from your thread that I saw this information that I reproduced here. I was going through your post on a thread and stumbled on this fact.

Thank you for actually exposing this secret that has been hidden from everyone since time immemorial.

peleson1:
True..

Onu was the originator of apc.

He technically removed PDP from power with his proposal of forming a merger mega party apc but the crefit of forming apc has been stolen and given to other people with propaganda.

PressMyButton:
Military never wanted Falae, the only person they wanted was OBJ. APP merged with AD being the stronger party and then produced the presidential candidate. Falae was more influential than Onu at the time.

weMUSTsayIT:


Oversabi faceless commenter you now know more than sani who is in the circle just because onu is omo igbo ?

Someone who practically registered the party you use in shouting RONU and shinedu?


If wigwe did not die will you know he has given loan to the dangote you use in insulting omo ibo?

PressMyButton:

Who is this illiterate?

franchasofficia:
That has been the fate of Igbos since the end of the civil war in 1970.


Dr Alex Ekwueme, the first civilian vice president in Nigeria was about to become President after Shagari's tenure in which Shagari confessed that his vice Ekwueme was an excellent man that would succeed him, but as usual, the Northern military boys who played role in the 1966 counter coup that swore that it's better a mad man rules Nigeria than for an excellent Igbo man to emerge Nigeria's President truncated Dr Alex Ekwueme's clear chance of emerging President through Maj. Buhari's led coup.


They did same to Peter Obi after he won the election before everybody's eyes yet they will be foolishly praying for Nigeria to become a great country and expect everybody to be patriotic despite being leaders of unpatriotism, division and nepotism in Nigeria.

Na here we de observe una sha.


RIP Dr Onu, history will remember you for good

b3llo:
Why was this not said while he was alive?

Fareke:


https://dailypost.ng/2024/04/11/ogbonnaya-onu-wouldve-been-president-in-1999-instead-of-obasanjo-shehu-sani/

Penguin2:
Tor

Ogbonnaya Onu is a classical example that no Igbo man will get anything from this people by remaining in servitude to these people.

When they make those stupid assertions like “if Igbos want power they must align with the center…they have to vote APC”, I just laugh. Because what they are doing is asking you to come and become their next useful idiot.

Onu has been with these guys since 1999. He never defected. He closest friends and allies were northerners but what did he gain at the end? Tears!

I saw him crying like an infant suckling his mother’s breast during the APC convention and I couldn’t help but cringe. Nobody acted like he existed. When he was done wailing, he left the stage in shame.

Orji Uzor Kalu who has equally been slaving them since 1999 equally ended in tears when he was crying like a little child they took her biscuit at the floor of the National Assembly.

Rochas Okorocha nko? They humiliated him until he respected himself and went and hid in shame. Despite his servitude to them, they sent EFCC to go and remove his zinc and capture and humiliate him like a common criminal.

Umahi is on same trajectory and I can already predict how it will end for him - in tears.

And I see a lot of people who claim to be Igbos fooling themselves here in the name supporting APC; toeing the foolish path of the fools before them and I always laugh at them.

Igbos will never gain anything being of servitude to this people.

If you don’t learn from history, you will just end up as just another historical specimen.

weMUSTsayIT:


But the collapsed country don't want people with working brain hence

N = NEVER

A= ALLOW

I= IGBOS

R= RULE

A = AGAIN

Nigeria is a sinking ship