Bishop Onuoha a Man of the people
REASON BISHOP DR. SUNDAY NDUKWO ONUOHA SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO TAKE OVER THE MANTLE OF LEADERSHIP FROM GOVERNOR IKPEAZU IN 2023.
It has remained historic that at a critical moment in history when the case of Abia State was so pathetic to a point that the masses started losing confidence and trust in their highly placed leaders and stakeholders who seem not to be holding any stake for their subjects, the masses cried out to God who answered their prayers and perfected the creation of Abia State in the year 1991 by *General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida*.
Since then till now, abians have been aiming higher. Their expectations were far beyond setting a target of getting their daily food through buying and selling.
These expectations includes their quest to acquire Western education and to witness infrastructural and human capital development like other places to be reckoned.
Luckily, God in his way of doing things, provided the people of the state with leaders who have been addressing the needs and yearnings of the people in their order of hierarchy.
The first executive governor of Abia state, *Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu* from Uburu, now in Ebonyi state broke the jinx of education backwardness, and provided the people with enabling environment for doing business, the manpower and all the needed facilities to acquired skills and education at a little or no cost.
As that stage was advancing, in the year 1999 *Chief Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu* from Abia North was elected, he did his own bit as the executive governor of Abia State.
The story of Abia State and her leaders continued as *Chief T.A Orji* (Ochendo) took over from Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu in the year 2007.
In 2015, *Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu* was elected the governor of Abia State.
As Abians, both home and in diaspora are expecting who takes the mantle of leadership as the next governor of Abia state becomes intensified. The masses are not only concerned about the credibility of the person who should be entrusted with the p