The Ripples generated by Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama’s tribute to deceased COS to President Buhari, ABBA Kyari have not abated. The latest is that the people of Enugu State are displeased with their representative in Buhari’s cabinet, over his distortion of certain historical facts surrounding his personal life, and the fact that they are of the opinion that he is keen to dilute his Igbo antecedents by being economical with the full facts surrounding his marriage history.
Onyeama had claimed in his tribute to ABBA Kyari, that the latter who was a Muslim was best man at his wedding and godfather to his first child at a catholic baptism ceremony.

Geoffrey Onyeama has always only stated that he only married once, and to a Yoruba lady. He portrayed this at the floor of the Nigerian Senate during his Senate confirmation screening and again in his tribute to the late Abba Kyari.

One of the most closely guarded secrets, however is that Mr Geoffrey Onyeama is twice married, and his first wife Nuzo Sandra Onoh is none other than the second daughter of Chief C.C. Onoh, former governor of the old Anambra State, and the man who fought fiercely for the creation of Enugu State, that Onyeama is now representing at Abuja. She is also the elder sister of Former beauty queen and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Bianca Ojukwu.

The young Geoffrey Onyeama and Miss Nuzo Sandra Onoh got married at an elaborate Wedding ceremony in Enugu in 1985 after both of them returned to Nigeria from their education in the UK. It was hailed at the time, as a dynastic union between the two most prominent families of the state, Onoh and Onyeama families. Geoffrey Onyeama’s father was the renowned Justice Daddy Onyeama, the first black judge at the World Court at The Hague. Fortuitously, the mother of the bride and former First Lady Of the state, Chief Mrs Carol Onoh also hailed from the same village as Geoffrey Onyeama being Eke in Udi LGA.

The newly married couple left shortly for Geneva, Switzerland where Geoffrey took up a United Nations appointment. The couple were married for several years, and their union produced a daughter Candice Onyeama, his first child, who is an actress and film director who resides with her mother Nuzo in the UK.
It is claimed that Onyeama and his first wife, Nuzo and daughter as well as both families remain in the best of terms, and that he was even present to perform the traditional rites of an inlaw at the funeral ceremony of his first wife’s mother and former First Lady Chief Mrs Carol Onoh in 2016.

Meanwhile, Geoffrey’s first wife, Nuzo Sandra Onoh , also a lawyer is now a bestselling author in the UK, specializing in the genre of African Horror fiction and writes under the pen name of Cambridge Onoh. She is an editor and publisher at Canaan- Star Publishing, UK, and her books include Unhallowed Graves, Anything for Money, The Reluctant Dead, and several others.

Onyeama has in the past few days, come under attack by critics both from core Catholics who have debated the validity of the said baptism of his son under catholic baptism canon law and others who claim that he is doing everything possible to pander to certain interests by promoting personal narratives that are designed to dilute both his cultural and religious antecedents.

The rich roll with the rich. In this country, it’s always case of who knows who.

rich people

Na them

sandali:
The rich roll with the rich. In this country, it’s always case of who knows who.

Am surprised that this minister Onyeama who is always forming Mr nice guy is a polygamist. Wonders shall never end. It’s no surprise that they choose to keep it under wraps.

If he has divorced her, why then do they expect him to make reference to her as his first wife?

I thought the Catholic Church Of which he claim to be a staunch member condemned divorce.

Its,only a,weak igbo man that a Yoruba woman can carry to her village for wedding.
By the way, who have heard of a Catholic man going to Anglican to get married? Maybe is because in Enugu, the Catholic church will not marry him again because he was married before.
And imagine, to C C Onoh's daughter. He don finish be dat.

Most of these politicians have skeletons in their cupboards anyways.

The only thing that matters is that he is a very fine man.

We4all:
The only thing that matters is that he is a very fine man.

Peanut brain. Na fine man you go chop?

kiosk1:
Most of these politicians have skeletons in their cupboards anyways.

But why is this man trying so hard to pretend he is so far from Igbo, he is claiming Yoruba wife and Moslem friends but he wants to hide that he was married to the daughter of the former Governor of old Anambra State C C Onoh.
Maybe it's inferiority complex.

kiosk1:

Peanut brain. Na fine man you go chop?

Maybe it's audition for wife number 3.

Beauty runs in Bianca's family.

Wahala. I wonder why dis minister have been having series of problems with his people. He has been having running battle with members of his party even in his state who claim that he just came from nowhere to hijack their structure after they have done all the hard work. Not quite long, it was all over d press that he was infected with the deadly coronavirus together with his aides. His marriage history Is his own business. Most of this men pretending to be sophisticated have many wives and mistresses. Onyeama is no exception.

Aftershock:


But why is this man trying so hard to pretend he is so far from Igbo, he is claiming Yoruba wife and Moslem friends but he wants to hide that he was married to the daughter of the former Governor of old Anambra State C C Onoh.
Maybe it's inferiority complex.

he simply wants to press the mumu botton of yorubas.

Watch how they will make him their new champion and start supporting him.

This guy just stirred the hornet's nest with his tribute to Abba Kyari

Kobicove:
This guy just stirred the hornet's nest with his tribute to Abba Kyari

There is nothing wrong about it. I remember that his marriage ceremony to daughter of the great Aninefungwu Chief CC Onoh was talk of d town then in Enugu because he was marrying the daughter of an ex governor from one of the biggest families in wawaland, just like his family too. I was there live with sylva Amadife also from Onyeama’s hometown of Eke. It was a big deal because both bride and groom were ajebutter Britain returnees. The marriage rites lasted almost one whole week. Many people really stormed d event. I even remember we were sitting near Eze Okwuluoha the Traditional ruler at the time of Geoffrey Onyeama’s town, Eke .

maruzia:


Am surprised that this minister Onyeama who is always forming Mr nice guy is a polygamist. Wonders shall never end. It’s no surprise that they choose to keep it under wraps.

After, some people will come out to say igbos don’t practice polygamy, or that it is for the uneducated ones.

Bianca Ojukwu...Nwanyi manaria

And so how is this news.Has it ended the lockdown?

Oboy! I came here to ask how this was news.

I suspect that this post was authored by the first wife, Nuzo, or the daughter, Candice.

potent5:
I suspect that this post was authored by the first wife, Nuzo, or the daughter, Candice.

I think Enugu A PC sponsors this. After all he was in bitter fight with Enugu A PC and one of them even alleged he,had corona and infected members,of his group and he made police arrest them.

maruzia:


Am surprised that this minister Onyeama who is always forming Mr nice guy is a polygamist. Wonders shall never end. It’s no surprise that they choose to keep it under wraps.

A polygamist? Chai! and I used to admire this guy for being so refined and polished

Aftershock:
Its,only a,weak igbo man that a Yoruba woman can carry to her village for wedding.

I don't want to believe that you are serious about the quoted statement above.

it seems some people don't understand the word polygamy.According to the poster,he said they divorced....

LordKO:




I don't want to believe that you are serious about the quoted statement above.

I mean it o.
Go and check. No Igbo man will go to the wife's village for wedding. They bring the wife to their place because it is a man that married a woman and not the other way.
And can you explain a Catholic man turning to Anglican to marry a woman in Anglican church? No No No.
The woman follows,her husband. That is the practice.
Onyeama is,weak.
He is Catholic, he is Anglican, his child is Catholic with Moslem godfather. In short he is behaving like a nobody not someone from such a big family.

Chidiiro:
it seems some people don't understand the word polygamy.According to the poster,he said they divorced....

Na only you wey see dat one. It is not indicated by the poster in this post whether they divorced or not.

Aftershock:


I mean it o.
Go and check. No Igbo man will go to the wife's village for wedding. They bring the wife to their place because it is a man that married a woman and not the other way.
And can you explain a Catholic man turning to Anglican to marry a woman in Anglican church? No No No.
The woman follows,her husband. That is the practice.
Onyeama is,weak.
He is Catholic, he is Anglican, his child is Catholic with Moslem godfather. In short he is behaving like a nobody not someone from such a big family.

He is not a weak man. Truth is that, he has never been a subjugable person (a religious or traditional person) - he only identifies with them when a need for them arises. He is spiritual but not religious/traditional (SBNR/T). A SBNR person always has an appreciable level of tolerance for all religions/traditions/cultures/classes - his decision to wed his wife in her village, having a Muslim as his son's godfather, identifying with both the Anglican and Catholic churches, etc, are all acts of tolerance and emancipation.

He is a fair-minded man; a true libertarian. Personally, I am a bona fide Igbo man and no law of the land forbids a bona fide son from being a libertarian - don't mistake libertarian for weakness, or conscientiousness for cowardic,e.

LordKO:



He is not a weak man. Truth is that, he has never been a subjugable person (a religious or traditional person) - he only identifies with them when a need for them arises. He is spiritual but not religious/traditional (SBNR/T). A SBNR person always has an appreciable level of tolerance for all religions/traditions/cultures/classes - his decision to wed his wife in her village, having a Muslim as his son's godfather, identifying with both the Anglican and Catholic churches, etc, are all acts of tolerance and emancipation.

He is a fair-minded man; a true libertarian. Personally, I am a bona fide Igbo man and no law of the land forbids a bona fide son from being a libertarian - don't mistake libertarian for weakness.

Call him libertarian or whatever you like. A man who stands for everything stands for NOTHING. No person can be everything to everybody. That is sign of weakness and inferiority complex because he is trying to please every tribe except his own people.
Even last week, they were angry because he used to speak Igbo in a different dialect from Enugu dialect. The man is,weak.