Media personality Chude Jideonwo has paid respect to the late singer, songwriter and actress Onyeka Onwenu.
In a post on his Instagram page, he revealed that he had spent the whole day crying like a baby as he was still shocked, stunned, and speechless by news of her death. Chude Jideonwo said he couldn’t remember the last time his heart broke this hard. In his words:
In another lengthy post, he recounted his memories with the deceased and how he was infatuated with her. Chude revealed that he was in Secondary school when he discovered Onyeka Onwenu.
According to him, he didn’t discover her from her songs, ‘One Love’ or ‘Dancing in the sun’s, but from ‘Greatest Love’, which he still considers the most beautiful song he has ever heard.
The media personality dded that he saw her in the music video telling the testimony of finding Christa and finding peace, and something about the woman on the pulpit made him fall in love.
Chude Jideonwo said he fell helplessly, recklessly, abundantly in love with her. He disclosed that he bought every one of her tapes, begged his aunties to take him to every concert and watched every interview he could find of her, as he adored her.
He had the opportunity to meet her when he became a producer of New Dawn with Funmi Iyanda in 2002, and she was one of the first guests he invited. He admitted that though she wasn’t warm, she was polite and professional, which he loved. Chude continued:
