The good people of Anambra South have unanimously settled for billionaire businessman and MD/CEO of Capital Oil & Gas Industries Limited, Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, as their senator, YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine can authoritatively report.
Ubah, interestingly, contested for the seat on the ticket of sparsely known Young Progressives Party, YPP. But neither that nor his opponents’ might could stop him as he trounced all of them fair and square.
Polling 87,081 votes to comfortably carry the day, his closest rival and controversial Anambra politician, Chris Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), got 62,462 votes.
Nicholas Ukachukwu, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate whom Iyom Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu still believes their party dumped her for, polled 51,269 votes while the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate and incumbent senator, Andy Uba, came ‘last’ with 13,245 votes.
Announcing the result at the collation centre in Nnewi North local government area, M.N Umenweke, the returning officer, said Mr. Ubah emerged the winner among the 26 candidates who contested for the ticket.
“Mr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah of the YPP having satisfied the requirements of the law and scored the highest number of votes is hereby declared the winner and returned elected as the senator representing Anambra South,” Mr. Umenweke, a professor at the Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, added.
Jubilation, expectedly, has been going on since at Ifeanyi Ubah’s Otolo, Nnewi home. Likewise that of his teeming supporters and beneficiaries.
A philanthropist par excellence, the 48-year-old father of five has touched millions of lives. Also an ardent sports lover and owner of the popular FC Ifeanyi Ubah, he had tried unsuccessfully twice to govern Anambra State.
Sympathy, many believe, however, tilted in his favour this time because many felt he was wrongly treated by the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, despite all the support he gave them. But the clincher remains his stupendous and humongous generosity, said one insider.