Berium:
why shld nairaland publish such news from such handle.. this is not official handle of APC nor Mr president.. don't create unnecessary confusion pls.

it's truth. I saw it on Facebook from a reliable source. You will soon confirm before evening

Excellent choice.

Gonna be some long 4 years for u son... #therewillbehaters #betterthantheex

captainBIAFRA:

Cheap attempt at appeasing the people of the lower Niger.
This wont help, just start working on your campaign promises or better still declare state of emergency in all sectors and create a ministry for corruption. Lest i let go of my boot for some asss kicking soon

1stola:

Brainless morôn.
You think Biafra will ever become a reality?
What a silly hope
How can unorganized and hateful stubborn people unit to
form a nation?
Keep dreaming fools..

May you die a painful death the very day Biafra becomes a reality. Amen!

My new presido behold u r not tribalistic

kay29000:


Why do you want to sleep in the Afternoon?

Hahaha. What a question? Wkd is meant for what abeg. U're disturbing my sleep jare.

Very sound appointment!!!A very disciplined,competent and intelligent man.He is a first class brain and very humble.Clearly a square peg in a square hole.

..Gud start I guess

captainBIAFRA:
I strongly condemn this

All your posts tend towards a slight dishevelled or even mentally unstable individual who would rather live out his fantasies than grow up..

I am sure you are in your very late twenties or early thirties but still living with your parents

Currently still undergraduate despite his mates having graduated over 4 years ago

Probably inwardly dissatisfied with your present laughable circumstances but yet instead of taking affirmative actions to change things relies of alcohol and drugs to avoid facing the reality of your very sad life?

I recommend suicide l, the world will indeed be a better place without you.

Alas I am very sure your IQ level will not allow you draw any meaningful points from my points so I fear I may have even wasted my own time writing this but my better nature always demands that I make. Concerted effort to better the lives of the less privileged around me

Yea.. Same old fools...



Change change change.

dadaojames:
BREAKING NEWS: President Muhammadu Buhari appoints Ogbonaya Onu as the new Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)

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Very good one indeed.
Nigeria sets for greater height

cato3:
i forsee this coming because i could remember the enconium mr prez bestowed on onu immediately he won his election.

And when a thread was open for people to predict, you were no where to be found and now you suddenly forsee

Nice.

Brimmie:


Baba gives no fùck about you Tribalists!!

Onu is a Nigerian.. Not Igbo!

ok you now know its a nigerian and not Igbo.

oloshi.

yeye they smell

Amaechi sorry ehh

He was compensated for initiating the processes that gave birth to APC — Ogbonnaya Onu


I initiated processes that gave birth to APC — Ogbonnaya Onu

Read below what might seems to be FACT(s).

Story by John Alechenu July 27, 2014 :

Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu

In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, a former governor of Abia State and ex-National Chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, now a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, speaks on the APC national convention, the Ekiti State governorship election and the party’s chances in the 2015 general elections

What is your take on the fallout of the recently-concluded national convention of the APC, especially concerning the complaints by some notable members like Chief Tom Ikimi?

The party did zoning and for a big party like the APC, there is no way you can conduct your convention without some problems. The important thing is that the party is determined to make sure the grievances of all those who are not happy as a result of the outcome of the convention are looked into and that solutions are found to make sure the APC remains a family, where all members will be happy.

Was this what led to the setting up of the Atiku Abubakar-led reconciliation committee?

Yes, there is a reconciliation committee. Though that committee is not going to look at all the problems, the party is determined to make sure all the problems are looked into and solutions are found.

What is your response to people who say the APC has started operating like the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, especially its preference for choosing candidates through consensus rather than allowing primaries?

The Constitution of the party is clear. It gives much prominence to internal democracy, which Nigerians saw when we elected our governorship candidates, starting from Anambra State. In our Constitution, the emphasis on internal democracy is such that even where you have consensus, the party will still have to vote Yes or No to make sure it is the true choice of the people.

I will also like to mention that there were three parties that you can call the legacy parties (Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change) which came together to form the APC; but there were groups from All Progressives Grand Alliance, Democratic People’s Party and we had the new PDP in addition to other groups that joined the party.

Ikimi had alleged in one of his letters, which was recently made public after the party’s national convention, that the APC was being run by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Do you agree?

It is difficult for any single individual to control the party. The party is a very big one; a national party for that matter. If you look at our Constitution, it makes provisions for important organs (to run its affairs): you have the Board of Trustees; there is also a national caucus in addition to our National Executive Committee. With all these organs operating, it is extremely difficult for any single individual or group of individuals to control the party. The APC is for all its members; it is not a Yoruba party, it is not an Igbo party, it is not a Hausa, Fulani party, it is a party for all Nigerians.

It is being said the APC will have a tough time in the South-East because of the actions of some of the party’s governors. Take for example, the deportation of south-easterners from Lagos by the Fashola-led administration. Don’t you see this affecting the party in 2015?

No. Mistakes can be made but they can also be corrected. I know that in the case of Lagos, if I remember correctly, when the Aka Ikenga (apex body of the Igbo) held one of its activities in Lagos, the governor of Lagos State (Babatunde Fashola) apologised for the action he took. And you can see that the Lagos State Government has not done anything like that again.

Don’t you see the sacking of civil servants, whose only offence was their state of origin, from the services of the Abia State Government as likely to have an adverse effect on efforts towards nation building?

I believe the governor of Abia State has had a rethink because he has recalled those that were asked to leave and I am happy about this last step he took.

Apart from being the national chairman of the defunct ANPP, what role did you play in the formation of the APC?

The formation of the APC was actually the first time parties that formed governments came together in a merger in the political history of Nigeria. It is an event that so many people played very important roles. So many, but with all humility, I will say I initiated the processes that finally led to the formation of APC. The idea of parties coming together in a merger had been on for some time but each time the process started, it would collapse. But this one, which I believe God used me to accomplish, succeeded. It’s a long story. May be I can summarise it: By 2004, which is about 10 years ago, the caucus of the ANPP in the National Assembly— all the senators, and members of the House of Representatives —invited me to speak on a very important topic: ‘Nigerians should not allow one party rule.’ At that time, members of the ruling party (the Peoples Democratic Party) were making predictions that the PDP will be in government for up to 60 years and nobody challenged them. I felt it was necessary to go and show Nigerians why that will not happen. In the process, I made it clear that the only way that would not happen was if all the opposition political parties came together to provide an effective alternative to promote competition in the political arena. This was in August 2004.

By December, the same year, the Lagos State House of Assembly invited me and I also made a very important speech that all the opposition political parties needed to come together to ensure that Nigeria had two dominant political parties.

When I became the National Chairman of the (defunct) ANPP in the last quarter of 2010, I quickly contacted the ACN leadership. By then, the ACN was the only other party that controlled more than one state and they invited me to a meeting. The meeting was held at the Lagos Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja. I went there and spoke to all the leaders, the governors, everybody. And I said, look, we should come together. It was from there that committees were formed. The ACN and the ANPP started meeting but you remember that was very close to elections. If you remember, by January parties held their conventions to nominate their Presidential candidates. As the ANPP was talking with the ACN, the ACN started talks with the CPC. The CPC/ACN talks collapsed. That was the one that the public knew so much about. The ANPP/ACN discussions, which the public didn’t know about, also collapsed but I didn’t give up. I and Chief Olu Falae of the Social Democratic Mega Party decided the four parties, the ACN, the CPC, ANPP and the SDMP, should come together to start discussing. The public didn’t know about this. We were able to harmonise our constitutions and manifestoes but we had difficulty in deciding who could be the acceptable flag-bearer. We were trying to use a window where Independent National Electoral Commission would allow you to make substitutions but it wasn’t possible, so it collapsed again. After the elections, General Muhammadu Buhari went to court; the candidate of the ANPP and the ACN didn’t go to court; so I waited. The Supreme Court gave its ruling in February 2012. I think about the 3rd of March, I now wrote a letter to the national chairmen of opposition political parties that were controlling at least one state. We started meeting; two of the chairmen couldn’t join for certain reasons but others kept talking. All we wanted to do was to build trust within us because you can only do business with someone you trust. Finally, we re-established our committees and the committees started meeting and that’s how APC was finally formed.

What do you think is responsible for the lack of commitment to ideology by Nigerian politicians?

I believe the problem exists because of our level of development. People ought to see politics from the point that politics is not just about winning elections. It is very important that politicians show character; that they show discipline. By this, they show they are principled; that they can be trusted; that if people don’t trust you, then it becomes difficult for you to influence them. I believe the problem of moving from one party to the other will not be on for too long. I believe so because people will recognise the importance of fidelity in the conduct of political affairs.

What is your view about the APC loss in the Ekiti State governorship election?

There are so many lessons to be learnt from that election. The level of intimidation and harassment was very disturbing to us. We shouldn’t fail to see the place of fear in politics. When there is fear, you find that there will be suppression of votes because if somebody feels that he or she is not secure, he or she may not come out to vote. Arrests and all other forms of intimidation and harassment were enough to suppress votes; to prevent people who would have voted even for (Governor Kayode) Fayemi to do so.
The ongoing national conference has elicited a lot of public comments, both for and against. What is your take on it?
I have always believed there is the need for us to continue to discuss in this country. This is a great nation with a lot of diversity. And we are still a young nation even though we just celebrated 100 years as a country. Hundred years in the life of a country is a small period. Some of us said no to the conference because we felt the timing was wrong. The key thing is not for us just to discuss these things and come up with suggestions as they have done but how to implement these suggestions. Take for example the additional state the conference said should be created for the South-East. Remember that in a similar conference, I think in 2005, the same recommendation was made. Has the state been created? No. The issue is that many things were not done properly for this conference. The members ought to have been elected; there should have been a law to establish the conference because this is a democracy. There should have been a provision in our budget before you start spending money on it. Enough time should have been given to them to discuss and also enough time for implementation so that these recommendations will not just end up on book shelves; because they can help our people only when there are policies that are implemented.

Do you subscribe to the school of thought that the way INEC is structured will make it difficult for credible polls to hold in 2015?

If INEC is to give the nation free and fair elections, the structure should not stop INEC from doing so. The important thing is for the political will to excel. If INEC is truly independent, then the funding should be in a way that will demonstrate true independence. Take the Ekiti election for example; it was not INEC that made a governor coming into Ekiti not to enter into Ekiti, violating the person’s rights. I was a victim myself. We came in using an aircraft, got up to Akure Airport, which you know doesn’t have landing facilities at night, and when we got there by 5: 00pm, we couldn’t take off. We had to travel all night to arrive there by 2:00 am. It was not INEC that stopped (Adams) Oshiomhole from taking off from Benin Airport. When supporters of Fayemi heard about all these, they could be frightened and refuse to come out (on election day). The environment for free and fair election must be in place for us to have credible elections.

I tell you, there is nothing as important as having a free and fair election in the country, because many of the problems we have had have been leadership problems. You need to elect leaders who owe their loyalty to the people; who know they are occupying positions of leadership as a result of the will of the people. If that is not done, then it becomes difficult for leaders to give their best or to put the interest of the nation first.

What is your take on the security situation in Nigeria at the moment and what do you think the long term solutions are?

The security situation is disturbing; it is worrisome; it should not be allowed to continue. The Federal Government must be held responsible because that is what our Constitution has said. In terms of long term solutions, quite a number of countries have had this level of problems: militancy, terrorism and they have been able to solve these problems. We have to look at the route they took and we must do the same for us to succeed. The most effective way is to ensure you work on your intelligence network so that you can monitor the militants and the terrorists. By monitoring them, you will know when they want to strike, you know where they want to strike and you will know who or what is their target. If you have these information, it will be easy for you to stop them before they strike. And if you stop them successfully over a long period of time, they will stop.

You were in the university system before joining politics. The sector is in crisis, what do you suggest should be done to solve the problem?

Education is so important that it is actually the key to national development, unity and integration. We need to do more in the area of education than we have done. There was a time our schools were ranked among the best, at least in the Commonwealth. It is not that way now and I believe there are so many things we should be looking at. First, we should work on our teachers, we should be able to attract and retain the best in teaching. We need to move in the direction of science and technology so that we can create entrepreneurs through our educational system.

Was there a time your party discussed the issue of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2015 general elections?

We’ve not discussed it. Whenever it will come up for discussion, the party will take into consideration the mood of the nation and the sensibilities of our fellow citizens. We cannot do anything that will make it difficult for our party to win elections.

What informed your decision to seek elective office in the first place considering the fact that you were into academics?

To seek elective office as governor from the academia was not easy; considering our background. I have always felt that Nigeria has a very unique role that God has destined for us to play in the lives of black people all over the world. The only way it can be done is by using political power effectively. Japan was not a developed country. Japan grew rapidly in terms of development and its prosperity benefited people around her. We want Nigeria to do that because today, if you want the face of hunger, it is the black face, if you want the face of illiteracy it is the black face; if you want the face of oppression, it is the black face. It shouldn’t be that way.

In 1998, you were named the flag bearer of the then All Peoples Party but you did not run in the election, which General Olusegun Obasanjo won. What really happened?

What happened was that I aspired to run for President under the platform of my party. Then, there were only three parties. Names of all those who wanted to run were given to a screening committee and mine was one of those that came up from that committee. The National Executive Committee of the party had to vote and I came first on the basis of which my name was announced to the world. Going by the Constitution of the party, it was only the national convention of the party that can nominate a presidential candidate. My name was taken to the national convention in Kaduna and it was ratified. There was provision for alliance between Alliance for Democracy and the APP and most people, including myself, had thought that because APP had nine states while the AD had six, the APP candidate would be the natural candidate from the alliance. What happened was that I was not consulted or informed, a committee was set up and a candidate was picked from the AD. Nobody even told me that a committee was going to meet. Also, if a decision was taken that the joint ticket should go to someone else, at least, courtesy demanded I should have been informed. None of these happened. The then National Chairman, the late Mahmoud Waziri, apologised to me publicly in a statement that everybody read. Also, the National Secretary, Dr. Oduma, did the same; that was what happened. I took all that because I felt it was very important for our country to proceed on the journey towards democracy and that the interest of the nation must come first.

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Nice one they ve been together frm ANPP and Onu is a technocrat

All thanks to okorocha https://www.nairaland.com/2346305/submitted-onus-name-sgf-okorocha

Anyim Ebonyi State , ogbonnaya Onu Ebonyi state. Its well even inside the well. Congrats the I my true opposition man I have ever known. He has stood his ground with buhari right from inception of this democracy. u deserve it sir!

handie:
Nice one. Giving the third most senior executive position to the southeast and the former ANPP bloc is indeed a laudable move. If only the southeasterners had foresight.... Ngige would've been d unopposed senate president. Oga lalasticala, FP biko

No tribe has held the position of Senate president more than the SE. It is symbolic at best.
So, no regrets.

adonismuller:
Good...but

The last time I checked he said he will choose his men himself..
I checked again and found out that Okorocha nominated Onu and Ngige for SSG...

I am still observing...hope PMB is not a toothless bull dog? We know who was the head of state between him and Idiagbon!!!

And who told u that whatever Okorocha nominated shall be chosen,

Okorocha was not the only one given the opportunity to nominate.
Meanwhile PMB already know who he would like to work with, okorocha just made a right guess of which I know he wasnt the only one that nominated ONu,
He just made his own public

why core ibo? it should have been Amaechi jor. I am afraid of Buhari's silly response to criticisms, same way he doesn't know if to shake Mrs Osinbajo or not, eventually he ended up shaking alot of women at the inauguration

MrCcf:

U are very stupid. Did we tell you we are regretting it? How has the Presidency better your life and that of your entire region? With or without the Presidency, we are still ahead of all regions in this country and blazing all trails. Don't think for us, think for yourself. We don't regret standing with our brothers and we don't regret sinking with them. Get that into ur empty skull. #Peace

Are you sure you really want peace with these rants? Standing with your brother ain't a bad thing but not accepting what God has in store for a Nation is a big problem. All we need now is to join hands together and keep supporting those at the helms with whatever not condemnations. One Nigeria is the ultimate Goal. Cheers.

Anyim Ebonyi State , ogbonnaya Onu Ebonyi state. Its well even inside the well. Congrats the only true opposition man I have ever known. He has stood his ground with buhari right from inception of this democracy. u deserve it sir!

Somtin tells me dt d greatest losers in ds administratn ll b amaechi n tinubu

idupaul:
For the first time in the our democratic history The president, vice president and SSG don't have pot pot bellies . Any change that starts from the size of bellies is true change and we love it

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handie:
Nice one. Giving the third most senior executive position to the southeast and the former ANPP bloc is indeed a laudable move. If only the southeasterners had foresight.... Ngige would've been d unopposed senate president. Oga lalasticala, FP biko

Why do you always have it wrong? We've chosen our part. There are two parties, so why must l follow you?
Which sector is Igbos lacking behind? Please mind your choice.

kenonze:


And who told u that whatever Okorocha nominated shall be chosen,

Okorocha was not the only one given the opportunity to nominate.
Meanwhile PMB already know who he would like to work with, okorocha just made a right guess of which I know he wasnt the only one that nominated ONu,
He just made his own public

you are still a baby in politics,your comment shows it all.

omo, buhari don give amaechi first leg over. Heheheheheheheheh

captainBIAFRA:

Cheap attempt at appeasing the people of the lower Niger.
This wont help, just start working on your campaign promises or better still declare state of emergency in all sectors and create a ministry for corruption. Lest i let go of my boot for some asss kicking soon

keep deceiving yourself, you better go and get yourself engaged and stop this your dream.

adonismuller:
Good...but

The last time I checked he said he will choose his men himself..
I checked again and found out that Okorocha nominated Onu and Ngige for SSG...

I am still observing...hope PMB is not a toothless bull dog? We know who was the head of state between him and Idiagbon!!!

OMG! why is that some people are too myopic in thinking? So you want all VP to be like namadi sambo abi? watch out for idiagbon in osinbajo!