Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, has said as a representative of Ebonyi State in the newly formed cabinet of Muhammadu Buhari, he’ll ensure he leaves his mark on the memories of Nigerians as the best minister ever produced by the country.
Onu was speaking on Wednesday night at a reception organised in his honour by Concerned Ebonyi State Indigenes, moments after he was sworn in alongside 35 others.
“One assurance that I will always give you and I have said it repeatedly, is that as your son, I will never do something that you will be ashamed of”, he said.
He added that: “It is better for me to leave politics than for me to do something for my own selfish interest that will make you to be ashamed of your son.
“I will continue to act in a way that Nigerians will know that Ebonyi State is truly the Salt of the Nation.
“I want to assure you that I will make sure that I will be the best minister Nigeria ever had,” he stated.
He told his audience that the place of science and technology in the affairs of a nation state cannot be over-emphasized.
“I want you to go home with these words: no nation from the beginning of time has ever become great without embracing science and technology.
“The U.S. is the greatest power in the world; the largest economy, the strongest military and the U.S. has the highest diplomatic potential that she has used in the maintenance of peace all over the world.
“But the U.S. was able, is able and will continue to do so, so long as it is leading in science and technology.
“We cannot be great without science and technology,” the minister said.
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