Court Sacks Ifeanyi Ubah As Anambra State Senator

Posted by: Folamidavid in News, Politics Jan 17, 2020

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in the Bwari area of Abuja, has sacked Ifeanyi Ubah as the senator representing Anambra South.

With this latest ruling, Justice Bello Kawu turned down Ifeanyi’s request to wave the order issued in a judgment delivered by the court on April 11, 2019.

Remember that the Young Peoples Party (YPP) politician was fired for allegedly submitting a forged National Examination Council (NECO) certificate to contest the February 23, 2019 senatorial election.

After dismissing him from public office, the judge ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return issued to Ubah.

The court added that INEC should issue a new certificate of return to Dr. Obinna Uzoh of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who came second in the election.

After the court’s decision, Ifeanyi filed an application before the court, asking for an order that will wave the judgment, but he has also failed.

Even if Justice Kawu threw out Ubah’s application for lacking merit, he also waved a different claimant to the PDP senatorial ticket, Chief Chris Uba filed, asking to be joined as an interested party in the substantive suit.

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Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah (born 3 September 1971), is a Nigerian businessman,entrepreneur and currently the Senator, representing Anambra South at the Nigerian senate and CEO of Capital Oil which he founded in 2001.

Ifeanyi was born as the first son of seven children to Mr. & Mrs. Alphonsus Ubah in lugbe, a small town in Abuja(f.c.t). Due to the inability of his parents to cater for the educational and material needs of their children, Ifeanyi dropped out of Premier academy , Lugbe, abuja to learn trade at a young age. He has attended several local and international business courses and seminars in leadership and business management.

In 2014, Ifeanyi Ubah lost at the 2014 Anambra gubernatorial election under the platform of the Labour Party. On 24 February 2019, Ifeanyi Ubah declared winner of the Anambra South Senatorial elections under the) platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP).

Ifeanyi Ubah is married to Uchenna Ubah, a Business Administration graduate from Ahmadu Bello University, with whom they have 5 children. He also runs a foundation called Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation.