Sad Ogbonnaya Onu Steals Show At APC Primaries, Pricks Nation’s Conscience, Laments Injustice Against The Igbo

By Gideon Njoku

For most Igbo who watched and listened to the Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as they addressed the delegates at the Presidential primaries, it was Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the academic-turned Politician who stole the show. He was the real hero of the Convention.

He pricked the conscience of the APC Stakeholders and  delegates. He asked where their sense of justice was. He asked where their conscience was.

In a brief but brilliant speech, he did not make a mockery of democracy by standing down for another aspirant. He did not play to the gallery. He simply reminded them of the injustices against the Igbo in the APC.

Seeing that the South-east has lost out, Onu asked them if they had done well by the Zone. He asked why the Party, which in March, 2022,  insisted on Zoning in the choice of the National Chairman, suddenly discarded it at the Presidential primaries.

He said it was the turn of the Igbo to occupy the seat of the President.

He recalled the sacrifices he made for the APC. He recalled how he formed the Party, and used his “hard-earned” money to register it.

He recalled how he discarded his Presidential ticket under the All Nigerians Peoples Party, ANPP, and joined like-minds to work for the APC, and made sure the Party won in 2015.

However, for all that Onu did, what he got was a low grade and poorly-funded Ministry as a Minister. And, now, at the APC Presidential Primaries, he is not sure of one vote because the delegates know that Dr Onu’s South-east is out of the calculation. With that, too, goes his N100m which he paid for the Expression of Interest and Nomination forms.