By Alphonsus Nweze
As the All Progressives Congress (APC) counts down for its primary for the November 2025 Anambra State Governorship election, the political family of late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah has declared support for Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu’s governorship ambition.
Addressing the principal officers of Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah’s campaign team, the Director General, Hon. Vin. Onyeka, told them that they would continue the journey through Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu.
He said Ukachukwu shared a lot in common with Senator Ubah, among them include that Uba stood for zoning like Ukachukwu.
“Senator Ifeanyi Uba stood for zoning and believed in zoning and agreed to sign undertaking that he was going to do only four years which is the remaining number of years for Anambra South Senatorial zone so that Anambra Central would have its turn as arranged in the existing zoning formula” said Hon. Onyeka.
He affirmed that Prince Ukachukwu who is also from Anambra South Senatorial zone was committed to the same four years.
Thanking the principal officers for standing firm with Dr. Ubah when he was alive, the DG urged them: “Let’s continue the Ifeanyi Ubah’s journey through Prince Dr Nicholas Ukachukwu”.
He assured that with Prince Ukachukwu, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s spirit would continue to find comfort and lasting peace.
Onyeka said : “lightening does not struck twice but this time it has because although they have lost Ubah” who he described as “a colossus,a maverick political figure, there is a replica of him who is everything Ifeanyi Ubah in the person of Prince Dr. Nicholas Ukachukwu. It doesn’t happen so often but here we are stark with the reality of another Ifeanyi Ubah before us”.
Onyeka said the love Ukachukwu showed to Ubah was the reason that brought them together with other groups under one family, saying that Ukachukwu has simply: “inherited Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s political family, including Ikemba Front which Ubah resuscitated and gave life under the leadership of Sir Arinzechuchukwu Awogu”.
He noted that Ukachukwu threw his weight behind Senator Ubah when he visited him to solicit for his support for his governorship ambition, when he stated that the fact that he (Ubah) came to him to consult him first, he dropped his own governorship ambition and supported Ubah.
Ukachukwu, he said, had pledged not only only to deliver Nnewi South Local Government Area for Ubah but to do that without collecting a dime from him, asked Ubah to focus on the remaining 20 Local Government Areas in the State.
