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President Buhari approves Ogbonnaya Onu as Secretary to Government of the Federation

 

Femi  Adeshina
Femi Adeshina

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF. The announcement of the appointment is expected any time from now.
Dr. Onu, from Ebonyi state, replaces Anyim Pius Anyim, also from Ebonyi state, who was until the end of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency last Friday, the SGF.
The approval of the appointment has confirmed Global Patriot Newspapers’ exclusive story of April 26, 2015 that Buhari had penciled Dr. Onu down ahead of Senator Chris Ngige, who was also considered for the position after he missed being made Senate President because he lost his re-election bid.

Already announced is the appointment Mr. Femi Adesina as Special  Adviser Media and Publicity and Mallam Shehu Garba as Senior Special  Assistant on Media and Publicity. Likewise announced is the appointment of  Alhaji Lawal Abdullahi Kazaure as State Chief of Protocol.
A former National Chairman of the now defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, Dr. Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu, was born on December 1, 1951, in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. He became the first civilian governor of the old Abia state (1991), then made up of what is today Abia and Ebonyi states and was chosen by his colleague governors then as Chairman, Conference of Nigerian elected Governors.

A team player, he was selected at his party’s primaries in 1999 as the first presidential candidate of the now defunct All Peoples Party, APP.

He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees, BOT, of the APC and one of the key figures that engineered the mega merger of political parties that brought about the APC and led to the crushing defeat of the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the April 11general elections.

Soft-spoken and rarely controversial, Dr. Onu had Grade One with Distinction in the West African School Certificate examination at Izzi High School, Abakiliki, Ebonyi state; recorded Distinctions in Physics and Chemistry at the Higher School Certificate examination at College of Immaculate Conception, CIC, Enugu, graduating as best overall student.

He went on to the University of Lagos, UNILAG, where in 1976 he graduated with first class honours in Chemical Engineering. He also has Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D, degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, UC Berkely California, USA, 1980.

While in the US he was, among others, President of the African Students Union and President of the Nigerian Association of Northern California, Inc.

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