Otti renames Abia State Polytechnic after Ogbonnaya Onu

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has renamed the Abia State Polytechnic aft Dr Ogbonnaya Onu.

The instauration volition henceforth beryllium known arsenic Dr Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba.

Otti made the declaration astatine the International Conference Centre, Umuahia, connected Thursday erstwhile helium received the assemblage of the archetypal elected civilian politician of aged Abia State, Ogbonnaya Onu, astatine the inter-denominational work organized successful his honour.

Otti who said that the decease of Onu successful April this twelvemonth created a societal and governmental void that volition beryllium precise hard to fill, condoled the radical of Abia and Ebonyi states , peculiarly Governor Francis Nwifuru, Onu’s widow and children.

He described the erstwhile curate of arsenic an accomplished statesman and trailblazer whose singular tally successful authorities offered him the level to service arsenic the archetypal democratically-elected politician of Abia State, Minister of the Federal Republic, erstwhile National Chairman of the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), a erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner and a founding subordinate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Abia politician recalled however Ogbonnaya Onu gave up the statesmanlike summons of the present defunct All Peoples Party (APP) successful the physique up to the 1999 wide elections due to the fact that of his content successful the agelong word unity of the nation.

“Dr Onu did not lone laic the instauration for the dynamic and structured improvement of each parts of the state, helium acceptable up large administrative and service-delivery structures that are inactive functioning till today.

“Dr Ogbonnaya Onu’s administrative genius inspired the mounting up of the Abia State Polytechnic Aba, the Abia State College of Education (Technical) Arochukwu, and the National Ambassador Newspaper.

“It is besides important to callback that it was nether Governor Onu that the Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike, present Michael Okpara University of Agriculture (MOUAU), was established.

“It is connected this enactment distinguished ladies and gentlemen that we arsenic a State person decided to immortalize him by renaming the Abia State Polytechnic Aba aft him.

“The Polytechnic volition henceforth, beryllium known arsenic as Dr Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba,” Otti said.