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For those who have come in contact with business mogul, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, they will attest to his resilience. The Chairman of Capital Oil is a goal-getter. This special virtue he brought into his business he has extended to his political activities. Ubah’s political sojourn started in 2014, when as a member of the Labour Party he contested to govern Anambra State. He eventually came third after the polls. He later moved to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP where he reactivated his gubernatorial dream.
The business mogul could not get the ticket during the party’s primaries. For openly showing his displeasure for the outcomes of the primaries, the Nnewi-born businessman was sanctioned by the party which forced him to defect to the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. Of course, Ubah had his eyes on the game and as a personality committed to the welfare of his community, he looked for every available opportunity to serve.
The only option at hand was to go to the Senate. Ubah was allegedly promised the APGA Anambra South Senatorial District ticket and before the party’s Senatorial primary, he was the frontline aspirant. With the assurance, Ubah in return put everything into supporting the party. But barely few hours before the primary, despite his immense contributions in consolidating and sustaining the party both in the past and in the present, APGA leadership announced the disqualification of Ubah on the pretext that he did not apply to obtain waiver.
This, it was gathered, left Ubah disconsolate as he had spent so much to assist the party while hoping that the party will pay him back with the much-coveted senatorial ticket. But to prove a point that he cannot be pushed aside anyhow, Ubah did the unthinkable as he pitched his tent with relatively new party, Young Progressives Party, YPP, and got the party’s ticket to contest for his senatorial district. To the chagrin of everyone, the oil mogul defeated every other contestant to become the first-ever Senator-elect of YPP during the last Saturday NASS elections. Ubah polled a total of 87, 081 votes to emerge winner of the Anambra South Senatorial District. His closest rival, Chris Uba of the PDP and younger brother of the incumbent Senator for the area, Senator Andy Uba got 62,462 votes. Nicholas Ukachukwu of APGA 51,269 came third and the incumbent Andy Uba of APC got 13,245. The resounding result proved to all that the businessman is not a pushover and has withered the influence of the Uba brothers who have dominated the Anambra politics for years.
Spotlight gathered that Ubah’s Nnewi mansion has turned a beehive of activities with many trooping to celebrate with the Senator-elect who will on Sunday host a thanksgiving service in the church in Nnewi and later host his people to a victory soiree.
