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Abia State Polytechnic, Aba will now be known as Dr Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba, the first executive Governor of the State.
Governor Otti made the pronouncement at the International Conference Centre, Umuahia, on Thursday when he received the body of the first elected civilian governor of old Abia State, Ogbonnaya Onu, at the inter-denominational service organized in his honour.
The Governor who said the death of Onu in April this year created a social and political vacuum that will be difficult to fill, condoled the people of Abia and Ebonyi states , particularly Governor Francis Nwifuru, Onu’s widow and children.
He described the former minister of Science and Technology as an accomplished statesman and trailblazer whose remarkable run in politics offered him the platform to serve as the first democratically-elected governor of Abia State, Minister of the Federal Republic, former National Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), a former presidential candidate and a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Abia governor recalled how Ogbonnaya Onu gave up the presidential ticket of the now defunct All Peoples Party (APP) in the build up to the 1999 general elections because of his belief in the long term unity of the nation.
Governor Otti, said Abia Polytechnic will henceforth be known as Dr Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba.
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