Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah (September 3, 1971 – July 27, 2024), was a Nigerian politician, entrepreneur and businessman who served as a Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District within the Nigerian senate till his demise on July 27, 2024, in London.
Beneath are 10 issues about Ubah’s life and character:
1. Ubah died at 52. He would have been 53 on September 3.
2. He was born as the primary son of seven kids to Mr. & Mrs. Alphonsus Ubah in Otolo, one of many 4 quarters of Nnewi in Anambra State, Nigeria. As a result of lack of ability of his dad and mom to cater to the academic and materials wants of their kids, Ubah dropped out of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja to be taught commerce at a younger age. He has attended a number of native and worldwide enterprise programs and seminars in management and enterprise administration.
3. Ubah turned an exporter of motor tyres and spare components majorly in West Africa, together with Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and DR Congo, earlier than he expanded his enterprise ventures in some international locations in Europe, together with Belgium and the UK.
4. He was the CEO of Capital Oil, which he based in 2001. Capital Oil services and shops are domiciled principally in Southeast and Southwest Nigeria, with one of many largest tank farms for petroleum merchandise storage and distribution in Lagos.
5. He was the founding father of The Authority Newspaper, a Nigerian each day newspaper. Ifeanyi Ubah’s newspaper, ‘The Authority, ’ went each day on October 15, 2015.
6. Ubah based the Ifeanyi Ubah F.C., a soccer membership within the Nigeria Premier League, following its buy as Gabros Worldwide Soccer Membership. He additionally based a basis named after him; Ifeanyi Ubah Basis.
7. In 2014, Ifeanyi Ubah contested the 2014 Anambra governorship election on the platform of the Labour Get together however misplaced the race.
8. On February 24, 2019, Ifeanyi Ubah was declared the winner of the Anambra South Senatorial elections on the platform of the Younger Progressive Get together however defected to Nigeria’s ruling social gathering, the All Progressive Congress.
9. Ubah was married to Uchenna Ubah, a Enterprise Administration graduate of Ahmadu Bello College in Nigeria, with whom he had 5 kids.
10. In September 2022, Ubah, on his method to Nnewi, was ambushed by gunmen in Enugwu-Ukwu in Anambra State – his convoy was shot at; not less than 5 individuals, together with two policemen, had been killed. Ubah survived the assault, reportedly shielded by the bulletproof automobile he was driving on.