President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed Ebonyi State born minister of Science and Technology, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu as The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
Ogbonnaya Onu was the first Governor of Abia State, (1992-1993) under the National Party of Nigeria, former Minister of Science and Technology.
Born 1951, a first class degree graduate in Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos, (1976), PhD Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
Engr Onu was first Chairman, Conference of Nigerian elected Governors. In 1999, he was the Presidential flag bearer for the All People’s Party but relinquished the position to Chief Olu Falae after a merger of his party with the Alliance for Democracy who lost to Olusegun Obasanjo of the PDP.
He became the National Party Chairman of the All Nigerian People’s Party 2010. In 2013, his party (ANPP) successfully merged with the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Democratic People’s Party (DPP) and some members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In November 2015, he was appointed Minister of Science and Technology by President Muhammadu Buhari, and now Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
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