The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, is dead. He was 48. He passed away on Saturday morning at a London hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for a serious illness. According to media reports, his condition had deteriorated in the past 48 hours, but the cause of death is not yet known.
Ubah was a member of the Young Progressive Party (YPP) and had recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). He planned to run for governor of Anambra State in the next election.
Born on 3 September 1971, he was the CEO of Capital Oil (CCO), which he founded in 2001, and its facilities and outlets are mostly in Southeast and Southwest of Nigeria with one of the largest Tank farm for petroleum products storage and distribution in Lagos.
As contained in “The Biography of Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, CEO Capital Oil and Gas”. Records NG. 2 June 2015, Ifeanyi was born as the first son of seven children to Mr. and Mrs. Alphonsus Ubah in Otolo, one of the four quarters of Nnewi in Anambra State, Nigeria. Due to the inability of his parents to cater for the educational and material needs of their children, Ifeanyi dropped out of Premiere 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.
Ifeanyi, as his biography has it further, became an exporter of motor tyres and spare parts majorly in West Africa including Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and DR Congo before he expanded his business ventures in some countries in Europe including Belgium and the United Kingdom.
In 2001, he founded Capital Oil and Gas Limited. He is the founder of The Authority Newspaper, a Nigerian daily newspaper and also the owner of Ifeanyi Ubah F.C., a football club in the Nigeria Premier League, following its purchase as Gabros International Football Club.
In 2014, Ifeanyi Ubah lost at the 2014 Anambra gubernatorial election under the platform of the Labour Party. On 24 February 2019, Ifeanyi Ubah was declared winner of the Anambra South Senatorial elections under the platform of the Young Progressive Party (YPP),but defected to Nigeria’s ruling party the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Ifeanyi Ubah was married to Uchenna Ubah, a Business Administration graduate from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, with whom he has 5 children. He also runs a foundation which is named after him; Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation.