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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Christian Onoh</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Photo_of_Christian_C_Onoh,_former_Anambra_Governor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Photo_of_Christian_C_Onoh%2C_former_Anambra_Governor.jpg/220px-Photo_of_Christian_C_Onoh%2C_former_Anambra_Governor.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/84/Photo_of_Christian_C_Onoh%2C_former_Anambra_Governor.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="272" data-file-height="366" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Anambra_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Anambra State">Governor of Anambra State</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />October 1983 – December 1983</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Nwobodo" title="Jim Nwobodo">Jim Nwobodo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Allison_Madueke" title="Allison Madueke">Allison Madueke</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">27 April 1927</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 May 2009<span style="display:none">(2009-05-05)</span> (aged 82)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Christian Chukuwuma Onoh</b>, popularly known as <b>CC Onoh</b>, (27 April 1927 – 5 May 2009)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was a Nigerian businessman and lawyer who became governor of <a href="/wiki/Anambra_State" title="Anambra State">Anambra State</a> in 1983 at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Nigerian_Republic" title="Second Nigerian Republic">Second Nigerian Republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also the father-in-law of <a href="/wiki/Emeka_Ojukwu" class="mw-redirect" title="Emeka Ojukwu">Emeka Ojukwu</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Onoh was born on 27 April 1927 in <a href="/wiki/Enugu" title="Enugu">Enugu</a> <a href="/wiki/Ngwo" title="Ngwo">Ngwo</a>, in coal country in what is now <a href="/wiki/Enugu_State" title="Enugu State">Enugu State</a>. His father died when he was 8 years old and he was brought up by his cousin Donald Oji.<sup id="cite_ref-camp162_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-camp162-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting in the late 1940s, he worked as a contractor, then produce inspector and then livestock trader. Using the money from these ventures, he funded his education in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, earning a law degree from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wales" title="University of Wales">University of Wales</a> at <a href="/wiki/Aberystwyth" title="Aberystwyth">Aberystwyth</a> in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1958, Onoh was elected member, House of Representatives for Enugu Constituency. He later resigned to take up appointment as the first indigenous chairman of the Board of the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Coal_Corporation" title="Nigerian Coal Corporation">Nigerian Coal Corporation</a>. From 1961 to 1966 he was on the board of the Nigeria Railway Corporation. During the civil war, Onoh was appointed administrator of Enugu Capital Territory. In 1970 he returned to private life as a lumber merchant. He was a founding member of Club 13, which evolved into the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_People%27s_Party" title="Nigerian People's Party">Nigerian People's Party</a> (NPP), but later moved to the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Nigeria" title="National Party of Nigeria">National Party of Nigeria</a> (NPN). He fought unsuccessfully for the Anambra State governorship on the NPN platform in 1979. He was then appointed chairman of the Nigeria Mining Corporation, and in 1982, chairman of the Associated Ore Mines.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governor_of_Anambra_State">Governor of Anambra State</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Governor of Anambra State"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Onoh was elected governor of Anambra State in October 1983 on the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Nigeria" title="National Party of Nigeria">National Party of Nigeria</a> (NPN) platform, defeating the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Jim_Nwobodo" title="Jim Nwobodo">Jim Nwobodo</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian Peoples Party">Nigerian Peoples Party</a> (NPP). The election was marred by widespread intimidation, violence and vote-rigging.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The election was disputed, but eventually decided in his favor in the supreme court. Three months after the election, on 31 December 1983, the military assumed control under General <a href="/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari" title="Muhammadu Buhari">Muhammadu Buhari</a> and Onoh, together with all the other civilian governors, was dismissed.<sup id="cite_ref-camp162_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-camp162-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Onoh continued to agitate for a separate state for the <a href="/wiki/Waawa" title="Waawa">Waawa</a> people, and this was eventually achieved when the military regime headed by General <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Babangida" title="Ibrahim Babangida">Ibrahim Babangida</a> created Enugu state in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-camp162_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-camp162-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Former Justice of the Supreme Court Anthony Aniogulu said "Christian Onoh ... was always and is always fighting injustice. But he would not mind using unjust method to fight injustice."<sup id="cite_ref-camp162_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-camp162-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His daughter, <a href="/wiki/Nuzo_Onoh" title="Nuzo Onoh">Nuzo Onoh</a>, is a celebrated British writer, while his other daughter, <a href="/wiki/Bianca_Odumegwu-Ojukwu" title="Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu">Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu</a>, became a beauty queen, presidential adviser, and later Nigeria's ambassador to Spain. She is also remembered for her controversial relationship and marriage to <a href="/wiki/Chukwuemeka_Odumegwu_Ojukwu" title="Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu">Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu</a> the <i>Ikemba</i> of <a href="/wiki/Nnewi" title="Nnewi">Nnewi</a> and former <a href="/wiki/Biafra" title="Biafra">Biafran</a> president, who was over thirty years her senior. Their romance was a national talking point in the early 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another daughter, Lilian Onoh is currently Nigeria's ambassador to Namibia. His son Josef Onoh also went into politics and became Chairman of Enugu State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation. Josef Onoh is also the owner of the popular exclusive hotel, The Arriba (Voodoo Lounge) Enugu<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a Special Adviser to the Enugu State governor. He is currently the Chairman of Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is seeking the Enugu State governorship candidacy under The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Christian Onoh died on 5 May 2009 at the age of 82.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spouse">Spouse</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Spouse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chief Mrs Caroline Chinweolu Onoh: Born: 26 December 1935, Died: 17 June 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Children">Children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dr. Josephine Onoh {Born: 2 April 1959, Died: 28 November 1983 in a plane crash at Enugu, Nigeria}, Gabriel Onoh, Nuzo Onoh {British Author, popularly known as "The Queen of African Horror", Stella Ani, Ambassador Lilian Onoh, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Christian Chinyelugo Onoh (Jnr) Died: 29 March 1991}, </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grandchildren">Grandchildren</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Grandchildren"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Onoh has nineteen grandchildren amongst whom are Candice Onyeama, the award-winning British producer, script-writer, and director and daughter of Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister, <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Onyeama" title="Geoffrey Onyeama">Geoffrey Onyeama</a> {<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>} Christian C Onoh Jnr (111) Chineme Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Jija Carmen Orka-Gyoh. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christian_Onoh&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 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