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Industrialist Laments Sen. Uba’s Death, Describes him as the Best Governor Anambra Never had

As political bigwigs pay tributes for Late Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Uba, the Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial district, an Abuja based Industrialist, Prince Emeka Egwuekwe is the CEO, Prince Interior Furnishing and Furniture Company Limited, in an interview with our Abuja Correspondent, Paschal Emeka, recently in his office in Abuja, the Worldwide President General, Ezumezu Umunri, spoke on the demise of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. 

The CEO who doubles as Apakata Onyii 1 of Enugwu Agidi na Umunri, decries Senator Ubah’s demise, describing the late Senator as the best Governor Anambra never had.

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Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has recently passed on and his burial programmes is ongoing, what will be your message to his Otolo, Nnewi, his senatorial district, and Anambra State in general?

We are deeply mourning him, because his death is a great loss to Otolo, Nnewi, Anambra South Senatorial District and Anambra State in general. An exceptional Senator, he is also a huge loss to his political associates, which I am one of them and we are yet to recover from the shock and vacuum created by his sudden death. His death will affect the political future of Anambra State in 2025.

Distinguished Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s death is one death, too many.

What will be your message to his senatorial district and Anambra State in general?

Firstly, I send my condolences to his nuclear and extended families. I pray that God will be with them so as to know that all is not lost. I also sympathize with my state, Anambra, that has been hungry for a true leader like Ifeanyi Ubah, who I have sat down with several times and discuss at length his plans for the state.

And in him, I see Anambra of our desire in terms of economic and security aspects. He has the quality we need in Anambra as a governor, because we need a core business mogul, who is well exposed like Ubah.

As an industrialist, I know what Ubah has done in the area of the economy, with regard to oil and gas sector, among others and we know how to turned the economy around for everybody’s interest and in all these, Ifeanyi Ubah has at the tip of his fingers.

As an oil and gas mogul, his companies created a lot of employments to many; and his football club created opportunities for youths.

In Nnewi, his community, Ifeanyi Ubah built a classical international stadium, which some states are yet to build. When I saw the stadium, I asked him the motivation behind the edifice, he responded that it is very important to invest for the future of the youths and he is passionate in what will go for his people.

As a legislator cum businessman, he was able to secure his constituency, because you don’t hear about kidnappings and other similar vices there. Having said this, his death has created a big vacuum and that is why we are crying.

In terms of governance, Ebubechukwuzor as he is fondly referred to by admirers proved that he knows politics of acceptability. Before joining the national party and main stream politics, he won senatorial seat under an relatively unknown political party. If he were able to win senatorial seat through an unpopular party, he will do wonderfully well in his new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), where I belong to.

It was Ubah that brought me into the APC and since then, I have been enjoying what is expected one to enjoy in a political party. When he was bringing us into the APC, he said, for Ndigbo to move forward, they should join central party and shun regional party that will not do them any good.

He was the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) and you must be a big politician and open to hold such position, dine and wine with the senate leadership. Openness, generousity and sincerity in all his doings, are the magic behind his success stories.

He doesn’t hold anything back, like Tinubu and that is the life of a politician. Tinubu can give you anything within his reach, if you encounter him and that is the way Ifeanyi Ubah is. When I asked him if Mr President will accept his governorship ambition under the APC in Anambra, he promised to take me to Mr President, but he first took me to the National Chairman, who told me that this is the person Mr President wants as the APC governorship hopeful in Anambra.

In Atlanta where I represented an association from Anambra, when I brought the issue of Ifeanyi Ubah being the next governor of our state, with the reason that we are tired of technocrats, they bought the idea. In Anambra, we have seen the performance of our governors to be compared with that of Peter Obi, a trader and Ubah falls into the category of Obi and he is the kind of person we need in the state.

Does he deserve special and national burial?

He should be given a national burial. We thought that Anambra governor would have ordered a day or a period of mourning for him, because he deserves that and his achievements so far has made Anambra proud.

He was able to curtail insecurity in the state, making it possible for us to travel home. But now that he is no more, we can’t travel easily again. So the senators shall be in forefront in his burial, because he is the prince of the senate.

Pascal Madu

Paschal Madu is the News Correspondent of Spark News Daily - Nigeria's most sought-after online news platform in Politics, Sport, Entertainment and Religion. Paschal Madu is a versatile journalist, writer and researcher. He was formerly the Editor of Mandate Newspaper and Senior Business Correspondent of the defunct The Union Newspaper. Pascal Madu has written several articles, many of which were published in national dailies. The Author studied Mass Communication (Print Option). paschalreporter@gmail.com 07036941267

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