The Senator representing Anambra South in the National Assembly, Ifeanyi Ubah, is dead.
This is coming barely 48 hours after the death of Igbo prominent businessman, politician, newspaper proprietor and President -General of the sociocultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.
Ubah, who was the Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil, recently joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) was nursing governorship ambition in Anambra State.
He was said to have died in a hotel in London, the United Kingdom, on Saturday.
He would have been 53 on September 3.
Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, confirmed Ubah’s death to reporters on Saturday.
Ubah, who was re-elected into the 10th Senate under the Young People’s Party, had last year defected to the APC.
In September 2022, Ubah escaped assassination when he was attacked by gunmen on his way to Nnewi in Enugwu-Ukwu in Anambra State.
His convoy was shot at, and at least five persons, including two policemen, were killed.
He survived as the vehicle he was riding in was bulletproof.
