Ogbonnaya Onu Cries: Where Is The Justice? APC Should Have Zoned Presidency To South East

One of the people that gave fiery speeches, Tuesday night, at the Special Convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at the Eagle Square in Abuja, was former Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, who declared that there was justice in his party’s failure to zone the country’s Presidency to the South East effective 2023.

Nudging delegates to vote for him in the primary, an obviously angry former Abia State Governor declared:

“What is very, very important, exceptionally important, is that we must ensure that justice is upheld.

“Naturally, it should be somebody from the South East that will replace (Buhari), and that will give the opposite South versus North and Christian versus Muslim a balance, and it will bring stability to the nation; it will strengthen Nigeria.

“The South West had eight years as president, eight years as vice president; the South South had eight years as president and vice president; where is the justice? Where is the justice?”

Dr Onu recalled how, 23 years ago, he sacrificed his presidential ambition to enable then candidates Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Olu Falae, the two candidates from the South West, to run in the election that ushered in the Third Republic in 1999.

“I held the presidential ticket for one of the three parties then,” Onu said. “But I had to let it go in order to solve a problem with the South West, to make sure that two Olus contested for the presidency; that head or tail, one will become the president; and that brought down tension within the country.”

“This is what would have happened if we allowed the South East at this time.”

The immediate past Minister of Science and Technology said he believed that the party needed to do what was right; adding that such a “just measure” as zoning the presidency to the South East would have guaranteed peace and prosperity in the country.

Continuing, Dr. Onu disclosed that he decided to contest the party’s ticket, and eventually run in next year’s election in order to build on the achievements of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration and to make Nigeria a truly great nation, a country where all citizens would be very proud.

He then urged the delegates to vote according to their conscience knowing full well that at this juncture in the country’s history, Nigeria needs a leader who can build a country in which every citizen is happy, prosperous and can easily fulfill his or her aspirations.