ANDY UBA PART I

Senator Andy Uba is one of the many Nigerians who have toiled hard to make ends meet. His struggle for greener pastures found him in the streets of the United States as a cab driver. As a Black African, Andy must have faced acts of racial discrimination which is a major challenge to Africans in the diaspora. Uba must have slept through many nights with one eye open, in anticipation of corps raids. He is, however, one of the lucky ones, whom after years of fruitless surgeon in the US, landed plum government appointments in Nigeria and have even gone ahead to become king makers.
At the dawn of the current civilian dispensation, President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Uba as one of his personal assistants. Without any specifically designated portfolio, Uba became OBJ’s eyes and ears. Every secrete operation of OBJ from oil to banking, among others, was handled by him. Any person or corporate body that qualified to be awarded federal contracts under the Obasanjo regime which would require the president’s approval must pass through him. Holding an obscure office, Uba became even more powerful than most of the ministers in the cabinet. All this was made possible by his being a distant relative to late Stella Obasanjo, the then first lady. His job of a middle man between the president and those who needed his attention did not come without appreciable rewards. Contractors who benefited from this role were naturally expected to cough out enormous millions of dollars as kickbacks for such privilege. Alas, Andy evolved from a street hustler in the US into a wealthy power broker.

Andy Uba was said to have declared an asset of over a trillion naira ($8 billion) before the last gubernatorial election in Anambra state, in which he participated as a candidate. Though he has come out to deny it, if the chameleonic attitude of Nigerians is anything to go by, the report may be considered to be true. Nigerians politicians can deny being born by their parents if the need arises.

According to Sahara Reporters’ publication of 11/12/06, an investigation into Andy’s educational background and qualifications revealed that he earned no bachelor’s degree from Concordia University (formerly Sir George Williams University) - a Canadian institution he claimed to have attended. The official records at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, indicate that he dropped out prior to completing the requirements for a bachelor’s degree programme. The university’s alumni office of records informed that Concordia University has no record of Uba ever graduating from the school. It was also reported that official records obtained from California State University indicated that the former presidential aide never earned a master’s degree from the institution. In fact, he was never a postgraduate student of the said institution. The records of California State University also show that Andy Uba first enrolled at the school for an undergraduate program in March 1985 and dropped out in March 1987, and then re-enrolled on September 27, 1990. He was there until March 21, 1992, when he dropped out again.

Therefore, Andy Uba’s claim of possessing a doctorate degree from Buxton University in the United Kingdom is questionable, as there is no way on earth one can obtain a doctorate degree without first and second degrees. The page for Andy Ubah’s CV on his website is empty. This perhaps corroborates the allegation of fake claims. Ubah may have to substantiate his claims if these allegations are to be disregarded. When President Obama of the US was accused of not being born in US, he published his birth certificate. To set records straight and clear the air on these issues, Senator Andy Uba should publish his certificates for confirmation.

According to Andy Uba on his website, he is motivated by his vision of a better society, to serve the state. In his words, “i am here to see how we can change the image that people have about Anambra State, especially because the Igbo race is from Anambra. Every other state in the South-East will tell you that Anambra is the number one state. But if you look at it today, it’s like Anambra is the last state”. During his last senatorial campaigns, he called on the people to give him the opportunity to serve as a senator, so as to enable the state move forward and also make contributions to national development. “So, what I am asking them is to give me the opportunity so that I will be able to work with them with the ideas that they have, so that we can turn this state around,” he said.

His website informed that since his return, he has kept abreast with happenings in the country and has continued to interact with the people. This has informed his philanthropic and developmental projects. Uba would do well by informing us of these projects and where exactly they could be located. Andy Uba like his colleague Senator Chris Ngige, has so far received 540 million naira as constituency development funds for Anambra West Senatorial District which he represents. Senator Uba would be doing a great job by highlighting what projects these fund have been directed towards, and where exactly they could be found. He claimed on his website to have established clinics all around USA for his former employer. What an achievement! Many pregnant women and sick patients from Uga (Andy’s hometown) still travel outside the town for medical care. One wonders why this has not caught Senator Andy’s attention. Little wonder then, why like Senator Ngige, what he desires to achieve for his constituency on the National Assembly’s website is not available (NA). Actually, none exists.

Andy Uba is a billionaire (perhaps a trillionaire). Having interacted with the people of Anambra since his return and understood their predicaments, Senator Andy Uba has not bothered to site any industry in the state, appreciating the enormity of progress which such gesture could unleash for the teaming unemployed youths of the state and for the state at large. Anambrarians would like to know how many bills Senator Uba has sponsored in the Senate and what impacts such bill would have in their lives.

The despicable atrocities committed by Ubah and his ilk remain fresh in the memories of Ndi Anambra and on the day of reckoning, he shall be called to judgment. It is amazing how such persons find their ways into elective positions. It is only possible in a country like Nigeria. Churchill Okonkwo wondered in awe, “how these politicians (Ubah and Nzeribe) with “low IQ” that looted and burnt government properties with the supervision of then President Obasanjo are the ones representing Ndi Anambra at Abuja”. Let me briefly remind Ndi Anambra that on November 11, 2004, Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) at Onitsha and Enugwu-Ukwu, together with the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC), some offices at the government house and some buses belonging to the student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, were raised down by fire deliberately and maliciously ignited by hoodlums or what was tagged “unknown thugs”. It was however Rep. Chuma Nzeribe and Senator Andy Ubah together with Chris Ubah who masterminded and supervised these destructions. Their intension in mobilizing hoodlums who drove into the state capital in 43 buses (with fresh palm frond in the mouths signaling danger) was simply to create the impression of a state of lawlessness and anarchy and to serve as another warning shot to then Governor Chris Ngige after a failed kidnap".
All these remain fresh in our hearts and as Senator Andy gears up for the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra state, he must prepare himself for the shocker of his life, as Anambrarians won’t sit back and watch their futures ruined by these insatiable and pathologically corrupt few.

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ANDY UBA PART 2 WILL SOON BE PUBLISHED

Andy Uba is a criminal

Everything about Andy is fake.fake certificate,fake this fake
that.I call him professor corruption.Ngige is better than Andy
in several ways.Andy is a fraud.It is in his blood to be fraudulent.