The immediate past Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has described the death of former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as a big blow to the collective political psyche of the Igbo man, and a bigger loss to the Nigerian leadership.
According to a statement by Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka, the spokesman to Ikpeazu, the former Governor said Onu had risen to become the conscience of the Nigerian political establishment, adding that he would always be remembered for flying the flag of intellectualism in the Nigerian political space.
Ikpeazu urged the wife of late Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, the first Governor of Abia State, to take pride in her late husband’s impeccable records of service at both the State and National level, as well as the solid foundations he had laid in the academia.