The chief Promoter and Founder of the Afa Igbo Efuna Movement and Chairman of Capital Oil, Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, penultimate week, began the journey to realise his gubernatorial ambition as he formally declared his intention to run for the governor of Anambra in the forthcoming election. The oil magnate, representing Anambra South in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, made the declaration during a ‘Thank you’ rally hosted at the DCC Field in Nnewi.
While thanking the people of Nnewi North for electing him Senator in 2019, he formally informed them that he would run for governor in the November 2021 election. Senator Ifeanyi Ubah is running under the platform of the Youth Progressives Party, YPP. Before he officially declared his intention, he had reportedly secured the blessings of elders, stakeholders, and those who matter in the state.
The development, it was gathered, has been making other ‘wannabe’ contestants jittery, especially as he has continued to gain momentum in his race to the government house. However, the oil and gas top player has to battle a lot of challenges to realise his lifetime desire.
Apart from his relatively unknown political party, The Young Progressives Party, the incumbent Governor, Willie Obiano, may also constitute a clog in the wheel of Ubah’s dream. However, he has no constitutional right to contest any more.
A source revealed that the founder of Capital Oil is also aware of the mountainous task before him, and he is prepared to surmount it. In the past years, he has proved to his detractors that he is indeed a cat with nine lives. The more they try to bury him, the more he sprouts like a seed in a well fertile land.
The billionaire, who sits atop many businesses across the country in the past, has faced many challenges that would ordinarily consume a lily-livered.
But the Nnewi-born Senator has proved beyond reasonable doubt that he is indeed a warrior and a master of the game. Even though he is a lone fighter, many of his enemies are never his match. Since he was declared winner in the senatorial district, the billionaire has fought so many battles within the state and outside. But he has emerged victorious in all the legal battles so far.
