Onwe emerges Njiko Igbo’s Director of Operations

Senator Emmanuel Onwe, a Sir Thomas More Scholar, has been unveiled as the Director of Operations, National and Diaspora, of Njiko Igbo, the rainbow coalition movement dedicated to the struggle for a president of Igbo extraction in 2015.
Announcing the appointment at his Aso Villa residence in Abuja, the Protem Coordinator of the organization and former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, said that he “took full cognizance of Onwe’s solid background, resilient political spirit, passion for the Igbo cause and vast international exposure in nominating him and proposing him to the executive organ of the body for approval.
“The approval was unanimous.”
The resilient political spirit might be a reference to the epic three and a half years court battle that Onwe waged to regain his senatorial mandate in the Sixth Session of the Senate (2007 to 2011).
Onwe brings with him an impressive resume, by any international standard.
He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, where he bagged an LLB with honours.
He proceeded to University College London and earned LLM.
He holds a PhD from the University of London and a PGD in Specialist Legal Skills from City University London.
He was trained as a Barrister at the world’s topmost professional legal training institution, the Inns of Court School of Law in London.
Dr. Onwe was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn more than a decade ago.
Following a successful legal practice, he served briefly at the Senate, representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial District, from late 2010 to early 2011.
Kalu added: “As the Director of Operations, National and Diaspora, Senator Onwe will bring his considerable intellectual abilities and creative political mobilisation strategies to bear on his work for Njiko Igbo.
“His impressive network of connections cut across the length and breadth of Nigeria as well as globally.”