President Muhammadu Buhari says the selection of Ogbonnaya Onu as Minister of Science and Technology was as a result of his antecedents as a scientist.

Buhari, disclosed this at the public presentation of a book written by Ogbonnaya Onu-‘From Opposition to Governing Party: Nigeria’s APC Merger Story’.

At the event, the President said that in order to avoid mistakes of the past, Nigerians must learn from the socio-political history of other countries.

He stated that with books such as the one presented and those written by intellectual politicians, the future generation of Nigerians will be saved the time and torture of repeating the mistakes of previous generations.

“I want to thank Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, because what is missing is history. People must tell the history of our development politically, not only economically, because one significant thing, especially, about Nigeria is that we are inclined to refuse to learn from other peoples’ mistakes.”

“We insist on making our own mistakes all the time. But with books like this by Ogbonnaya Onu and intellectual politicians, our future generations will be saved the time and torture of going over the mistakes of the previous generations.”

“For this, I thank him very much and I certainly wish to congratulate him.

“And he is not the Minister of Science and Technology for nothing. Having known him earlier on as a scientist, I think the biggest challenge is to give him the ministry and see how much of a scientist he remains.”