Late senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah was a Nigerian politician and businessman who served as the senator representing Anambra South senatorial district from 2019 until his death on 27 July 2024. He was the CEO of Capital Oil (CCO), which he founded in 2001.
*Childhood and Education*
Ifeanyi was born as the first son of seven children to Mr. & 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 Premier Academy, Lugbe, Abuja to learn trade at a young age.He attended several local and international business courses and seminars in leadership and business management.
*Business*
Ifeanyi became an importer 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 was 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.
*Politics*
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).He had declared his interest to contest the Anambra gubernatorial election on APC’s platform in 2025.
*Personal life*
Ifeanyi Ubah was married to Uchenna Ubah, a Business Administration graduate from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, with whom he had five children. He also ran a foundation which is named after him; Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation.
*Attempted assassination*
In September 2022, Ifeanyi Ubah was on his way to Nnewi and was attacked by gunmen in Enugwu-Ukwu in Anambra State – his convoy was shot at; at least five persons, including two policemen, were killed. Ubah survived as the vehicle he was riding in was bulletproof.
*Death*
On 27 July 2024, Ubah reportedly died of a cardiac arrest in London, at the age of 52. He was said to have departed Nigeria for the United Kingdom two days earlier on 25 July.
A close family source said he died in a hospital where he went for surgery
