Billionaire business mogul and oil magnate, Dr
Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah (USO), on Tuesday,
June 17, 2014, ended the speculations about his
governorship ambition. On that bright, sunny
afternoon, the lanky chattered accountant and
President of Masters Energy took a bold step by
visiting the Abia State Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) secretariat on Finbarrs’ Road, Umuahia.
There, he informed members of the party
executive committee (EXCO) of his intention to
contest for the governorship position of the state
come 2015.
He was accompanied on the visit by notable Abia
political figures, including Chief Empire Kanu, a
former Nigerian Ambassador to Argentina, Chief
Emeka Atuma, a former member of House of
Representatives, Dr Maxwell Ndukwe Adindu, a
former Minority Leader of Abia State House of
Assembly and a former member of the state
executive council, amongst others. Also present
were teeming members of five Pro-Uche Ogah
groups.
As the crowd settled down, a man simply
introduced as Okosisi (Iroko tree) Obingwa, was
invited to address the audience. Ironically,
Obingwa, hypothetically, parades the highest
number of potential governorship hopefuls. Since
the state governor, Chief Theodore Orji, hinted
that it would be just to allow Abia South senatorial
zone (Ukwa/Ngwa political bloc) to produce the
next governor of the state, 98 per cent of those
being speculated to be interested in grabbing the
exalted seat come from Obingwa.
But Okosisi dismissed them, saying that Ogah,
who comes from Uturu in Isuikwuato local
government area -which is in Abia North Senatorilal
zone, was a better material than all the gladiators
from his home council. He said most of them have
held public and elective offices which they failed to
use to improve the welfare of their people, adding
that they would not do better if trusted with the
task of governing the state.
He posited that Ogah, a philanthropist of immense
proportions and dimensions, would take Abia to
greater heights. He said Abia PDP was lucky to
have Ogah in its fold, stressing that had he
declared his interest to vie for the exalted
governorship seat on the platform of another
party, PDP would have found him a hard nut to
crack. “Give power to Uche Ogah and it will be
well with Abia, it will be well with us,” he
submitted.
Next, Ambassador Empire Kanu, introduced as
leader of the Uche Ogah delegation, was invited to
address the gathering.
“We are here,” he said, “because of Dr
Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah. We have come to let
you know of his aspiration to contest for
governorship in 2015 in Abia state.”
Kanu continued “His name is divine because he
has not been entirely chosen by chance but by
epistemological origin. Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah has
a divine calling to take over the mantle of
leadership from our extra-ordinary performing
governor of our state, Dr. T.A.Orji.”
Inviting his principal to personally state their
mission himself, Kanu said “I will want to at this
point to invite our principal to speak for himself
and by himself. I have the singular honour to call
on the President of Masters Energy Group, with 13
subsidiary companies, a chartered accountant, an
acclaimed banker, an astute business mogul in the
class of Dangote, a philanthropist of the highest
order, a Christian, an Officer of the Order of the
Niger (OON), the sensational young man from
Uturu in Isuikwuato LGA, Dr. Uchechukwu
Sampson Ogah, to speak to you.”
Amidst a thunderous ovation, Ogah took it from
there, thrilling the crowd with his sonorous voice,
eloquence and thoughtful logic.
“I am most delighted, most humbled to be here
today,” he began. “Today is part of what we do;
we have been going around consulting. On the day
of our declaration, we will let you know. This is
just part of our routine consultation. And for the
fact that we are here, we have come to consult
with the members of the exco of PDP in Abia
state. And I want to say, thank you for the
opportunity you have given to us. Thank you for
receiving us. We are sorry for inconveniencing you
with a large crowd of people that are here but we
appreciate you because in your normal self as a
father, you will accommodate everybody. So, we
want to thank you so much and God bless you.”

I wish his is the right one to change the face of abia,because the present administration is full of tauts and thieves. His tenure made no remarkable change to better the lives of abians except the reloacation of the market,mechanic village and government house. Apart frm that he has done nothing so far

He not only would deliver Abia, he is the man to beat.

I and all my "boys" are behind him.

Uche Ogar used to be a Missionary in Scripture Union back in the days.
I hope this ambition will not jeopardize his faith.
Uche look before U leap.
May God help U!

Abia is a tough one.... Remember heavy weights like Enyinnaya Abaribe

HisRoyalHardnes: He not only would deliver Abia, he is the man to beat.

I and all my "boys" are behind him.

What makes him better than TA Orji.... i am still rooting for IHejirika, to bring in his military experience and flush out all these thieves like TA Orji in Abia

CHESSBOARD:
What makes him better than TA Orji.... i am still rooting for IHejirika, to bring in his military experience and flush out all these thieves like TA Orji in Abia

If you know Ogah or even care to ask, you would know he is an upright man, a philanthropist and an entrepreneur per excellence.
He has created and employed over 6000 people in very good jobs.

He would return Aba to its old economic glory and give young people a sense of pride by creating employment.

He is presently building an energy city in Abia-- comprising several plants and factories.
He built (yrs ago) a 500 seat auditorium at the Abia university.
His entire LGA(same as Gen Ihejirika) worship him because he outperforms the local govt, in terms of infrastructure provision/maintainance, security( equipped all police posts with a vehicle each since 2011 and vigilante groups) etc
He has heavily invested his money in Abia hence, cannot but increase the value by being a great governor.

Besides, he is "born again". And young. ( early forties)

Abia has no better material.

HisRoyalHardnes:
If you know Ogah or even care to ask, you would know he is an upright man, a philanthropist and an entrepreneur per excellence.
He has created and employed over 6000 people in very good jobs.

He would return Aba to its old economic glory and give young people a sense of pride by creating employment.

He is presently building an energy city in Abia-- comprising several plants and factories.
He built (yrs ago) a 500 seat auditorium at the Abia university.
His entire LGA(same as Gen Ihejirika) worship him because he outperforms the local govt, in terms of infrastructure provision/maintainance, security( equipped all police posts with a vehicle each since 2011 and vigilante groups) etc
He has heavily invested his money in Abia hence, cannot but increase the value by being a great governor.

Besides, he is "born again". And young. ( early forties)

Abia has no better material.

This your man seems good but we need strong and fearless men for the times ahead.
Ihejirika for me.

sCun: This your man seems good but we need strong and fearless men for the times ahead.
Ihejirika for me.

Ihejirika won't contest.

HisRoyalHardnes:
If you know Ogah or even care to ask, you would know he is an upright man, a philanthropist and an entrepreneur per excellence.
He has created and employed over 6000 people in very good jobs.

He would return Aba to its old economic glory and give young people a sense of pride by creating employment.

He is presently building an energy city in Abia-- comprising several plants and factories.
He built (yrs ago) a 500 seat auditorium at the Abia university.
His entire LGA(same as Gen Ihejirika) worship him because he outperforms the local govt, in terms of infrastructure provision/maintainance, security( equipped all police posts with a vehicle each since 2011 and vigilante groups) etc
He has heavily invested his money in Abia hence, cannot but increase the value by being a great governor.

Besides, he is "born again". And young. ( early forties)

Abia has no better material.

what about the ukwa ngwa axis agitation?abaribe?

HisRoyalHardnes:
Ihejirika won't contest.

how sure are you?

Them go just chop this poor guy money finish carry the Governorship post give the usual dem dem

the problem this ogah might have is that he is from isiukwuato thus this issue of ukwa ngwa turn might affect him....but he is the type of igbo rich business man i like that is investing in his heavily in his home town and does not seem to make much noise about it and he is also educated too unlike uzor kalu then.

PDP is finished in Abia state!
they cannot win anything in abia again,
even if they get mandela to be their candidate!

Vote labor!
Up labor!!!

as for me ihejirika is the man. although i have met uche personally, i can say that he is too quiet to face the tout from ibeku or the agberos in aba. we need sanity in the state thats why i will go for ihejirika.

as for my ndi otu onu brothers (ngwa peeps) untill you guys presents a credible candidate no seat for you.

henchamb: as for me ihejirika is the man. although i have met uche personally, i can say that he is too quiet to face the tout from ibeku or the agberos in aba. we need sanity in the state thats why i will go for ihejirika.

as for my ndi otu onu brothers (ngwa peeps) untill you guys presents a credible candidate no seat for you.

i do not think being quiet means that he cannot take hard decisions and follow it through...you cannot be succesful biz man in naija enviroment and make the kind of money he makes without being hardened or being 'quiet'....i think any ngwa person can be governor aside this four namely uzo azubuike,abaribe,nkechi nwaogu and emeka wogu....ihejirika hass not declared yet that is if he is contesting.

BASIC FACT ON Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson
Ogah, OON, FCA
BIRTH
Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah was born about
44 years ago to Late Mr. Wilson and Ezinne
Paulina Ogah in Uturu, Isikwuato Local
Government area of Abia State.
He had his secondary school education at
Ishiagu High School, Ishiagu, after which he
attended the Institute of management and
Technology, Enugu, where he graduated with
distinction in Accounting at Higher National
Diploma (HND) Level, and best faculty
graduating student. He proceeded to the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he
obtained a Postgraduate Diploma. He also
graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Banking and Finance from the Ogun State
University and went on to bag an MBA from the
University of Lagos. He has attended many
courses both at home and abroad.
LIFE AS ASTUTE BANKER
Dr. Uche was a consummate banker of
distinction. He spent 15 years in banking sector
during which he received many commendations
and awards as proof of his diligence and high
rated performance. He left Zenith Bank as an
Assistant General Manager/Head, Ikeja Business
Focus Group.
Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah is the President
of Masters Energy Group, a conglomerate with
over 13 subsidiaries and interests spanning
across Oil & Gas, Banking, Insurance, Aviation,
Shipping, Dredging, Logistics, Construction,
Travel Agency, Power, Commodities Trading,
Fabrication e.t.c. The Group has so far provided
employment for over 6,000 Nigerians.
HEART OF GOLD
It is in the areas of business and positive
contribution to society that Uche has made the
greatest landmark. He is a very successful
entrepreneur and businessman with a heart of
gold. His belief in the Nigerian economy is strong
and unequivocal. This belief informed his
decision to make an investment (Masters Energy
City) worth tens of billions of Naira in Port
Harcourt at a time when most companies were
running away from Niger Delta region because of
security challenges. That single investment, a
158,000 Metric Tonnes petroleum products
storage facility, has helped in no small measure
in the stabilization of petroleum products
availability and affordability in the whole of
South-South, South-East and North-East and
provided direct employment to over 600 citizens
of the Niger Delta region in the spirit of Federal
Government’s rehabilitation programme and over
4,000 ancillary employments.
MASSIVE FORAYS INTO ABIA
In December 2011, the Executive Governor of
Abia State, His Excellency, Chief Theodore A.
Orji, laid the foundation stone of Masters Energy
Industrial City in Uturu, Isikwuato Local
Government for various projects in the area. This
multi-billion naira integrated industrial complex
on completion is expected to grow the economy
of Abia State because of the high number of
businesspersons it would attract from across the
African continent.
A PHILANTHROPIC COLOSSUS
Asides all these, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah stands
like a colossus in the area of philanthropy. He
has single-handedly provided electricity for
villages, changed the landscape of a whole
village by building prototypal houses and offered
free medical services for citizens of the
community. In addition to this, he built and
equipped the modern hospitals in his native
Uturu community in Isikwuato Local Government
of Abia State and has offered scholarships to
both primary and secondary students in the
same community since 2006. Uche has also
partnered Hopeville Rehabilitation Centre, Uturu
for fabrication of Prosthetesis (Artifical limbs) or
Orthosis (Calipers) for so many disabled
persons. These are in addition to sponsoring
many people to India for various medical issues.
The humanitarian and philanthropic disposition
of Uche was taken to a higher level when he
established a foundation in December 2011, the
Uche Ogah Foundation which is primarily for
empowerment, poverty alleviation and providing
education and has empowered many in their
various fields. He also instituted a chair at the
Abia State University and is building an
auditorium in the same university.
RARE TRADITIONALIST
In recognition of his many contributions and
philanthropic activities to the economic growth
and empowerment of Abia State and the nation
as a whole, he was conferred with the title of
“Oke Osisi of Abia State in 2012 by the
Government of Abia State and honored with a
National Award of Officer of the Order of the
Niger (OON), by the President & Commander-in-
Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of
Nigeria, His Excellency Dr. Goodluck Ebele
Jonathan, GCFR in the same year.
Dr. Ogah is a Christian businessman, who
started his intimate relationship with Christ in
1986 as a student, in Scripture Union, Enugu. He
later joined the Full Gospel Business Men’s
Fellowship International in 1987 where he has
been serving diligently and is currently a Field
Representative in the Fellowship.
MULTIPLE AWARD WINNERS
Dr. Ogah is a recipient of numerous awards and
titles as well as a member of various
professional bodies among which include Fellow,
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria
(FCA) and Chartered Institute of Bankers of
Nigeria (CIBN), African Peace Award (APA 2010),
Meritorious Diamond Award for National
Development (MEDA 2008), Distinguished
Corporate Achievers Gold Award (2009), Fellow,
Nigerian Institute of Shipping (2009), Oke Osisi
of Abia State (2012), Fellow, Nigerian Institute of
Brand Management (2012), Entrepreneurship
Promoter of the Year (2012), Officer of the Order
of the Niger, OON, (2012), Honorary Doctorate
Degree in Business Administration by Abia State
University, Uturu (2013) amongst others.
He was also recently appointed as Ambassador
and Member of the Governing Council of the
Nigeria-Turkey Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
Uche is happily and blessed with children.


i'm not from abia state,but i graduated from federal science n technical college,ohanso about 11yr ago,sl abia state is still my 2nd home.
i wud support dis man

henchamb: as for me ihejirika is the man. although i have met uche personally, i can say that he is too quiet to face the tout from ibeku or the agberos in aba. we need sanity in the state thats why i will go for ihejirika.

as for my ndi otu onu brothers (ngwa peeps) untill you guys presents a credible candidate no seat for you.

have u considered Dr Alex Otti?

onyfrank:
have u considered Dr Alex Otti?

he has not resinged from diamond bank has he?..moreover he seems to be too close to t a orji for comfort.

This ibo people sef.. tomorrow u will shout marginalisation in Nigeria and how they do not want u to be president. Abia has about 18 LGA and Ukwa/Ngwa zone has 10 and are the Majority yet u feel it is fair not to allow them become a governor ever since Abia was created? Believe me, no matter what u do, one day they will produce the governor n dnt cry blue murder if they hold the state forever because they v the resources, majority, cities, money and political will. No matter how good, what is fair is fair. Tell ur role model to go for senate and return as governor after then.

Chief Dr Alex Otti (Ugwu Ngwa), the GMD Diamond bank Plc, a First class student in economics, a technocrat, action man, brillant and intelligent. He is the right man to move abia foward, economically and otherwise

This ibo people sef.. tomorrow u will shout marginalisation in Nigeria and how they do not want u to be president. Abia has about 18 LGA and Ukwa/Ngwa zone has 10 and are the Majority yet u feel it is fair not to allow them become a governor ever since Abia was created? Believe me, no matter what u do, one day they will produce the governor n dnt cry blue murder if they hold the state forever because they v the resources, majority, cities, money and political will. No matter how good, what is fair is fair. Tell your role model to go for senate and return as governor after then.

asha80: he has not resinged from diamond bank has he?..moreover he seems to be too close to t a orji for comfort.

though becus of his experience, diamond bank has written him for tenure enlogation for 3yrs, but he chose to liberate d abians with his vast experience as a leader. He love abians, lets b wit him

onyfrank:
though becus of his experience, diamond bank has written him for tenure enlogation for 3yrs, but he chose to liberate d abians with his vast experience as a leader. He love abians, lets b wit him

well he should know what to do to win the pdp ticket...only then would the masses be able to have the choice to vote him or not.

The greatest mistake of all time was to include Ukwa-Ngwa in Abia State.

The glorious zone has been suffocated, destroyed and taken 40 years back by parasitization.from their Northern brethren.
There is no legacy project ever built in Ukwa-Ngwa since the creation of Abia State, not even one.

Curse be the day Abia State was created.

Never again shall the peoples vote be uncounted.

peleson and ngwakwe pdp has not yet chosen its flagbearer so i do not know why you guys are up in arms...t a orji has said that he is going to handover to ukwa ngwa so i do not know why the anger una dey display here....or dont you trust him to 'deliver' or you fear the other guys?

asha80: peleson and ngwakwe pdp has not yet chosen its flagbearer so i do not know why you guys are up in arms...t a orji has said that he is going to handover to ukwa ngwa so i do not know why the anger una dey display here....or dont you trust him to 'deliver' or you fear the other guys?

Trust him at your own peril and moreover, in any free and fair election there is no match.

T. A. Orji should shove his ethnocentricism to his throat. He has been killing the Eagles that lay the golden eggs.since 2007

asha80: peleson and ngwakwe pdp has not yet chosen its flagbearer so i do not know why you guys are up in arms...t a orji has said that he is going to handover to ukwa ngwa so i do not know why the anger una dey display here....or dont you trust him to 'deliver' or you fear the other guys?

Stay motionless and allow them destroy Abia state. What is my business. What other city or town do u v in Abia if not Aba. Aba is a center hub connecting about 4 major cities n more for trade, commerce, energy and labour but for the past 16yrs, u guys left it in the hands of demonic arm rubbers. Aba is the most industrials city in S/East and has the best topography in the whole geopolitical zone n I see no reason Aba should v business with flooding but see how dirty it has turn.. turning once a beautiful city into a slum. I pity 4 people from that state especially the Ukwa/Ngwa zone which has 80% of Abia wealth n resources

Ngwakwe:

Trust him at your own peril and moreover, in any free and fair election there is no match.

T. A. Orji should shove his ethnocentricism to his throat. He has been killing the Eagles that lay the golden eggs.since 2007

ok i get it you do not trust him(who should anyway)... Also as someone that lives in owerri i am sure you witnessed how okorocha entered the govt house soldier or no soldier so why cant abia people do same?

peleson:
Stay motionless and allow them destroy Abia state. What is my business. What other city or town do u v in Abia if not Aba. Aba is a center hub connecting about 4 major cities n more for trade, commerce, energy and labour but for the past 16yrs, u guys left it in the hands of demonic arm rubbers. Aba is the most industrials city in S/East and has the best topography in the whole geopolitical zone n I see no reason Aba should v business with flooding but see how dirty it has turn.. turning once a beautiful city into a slum. I pity 4 people from that state especially the Ukwa/Ngwa zone which has 80% of Abia wealth n resources

not sure what you mean by 'you guys' in the first place as i am not from abia...secondly aba is flatland so if drainages are not built or blocked flooding would occur so i do not get your topography relationship in that sense of being best(enugu is best in that sense).

asha80: not sure what you mean by 'you guys' in the first place as i am not from abia...secondly aba is flatland so if drainages are not built or blocked flooding would occur so i do not get your topography relationship in that sense of being best(enugu is best in that sense).

No, Aba is the best, Aba is not in any way a flat land. God has blessed that city with a wonderful topography. There are rivers that crisscross the city, a wonderful hill where water naturally channel through. The sewage systems mbakwe built are all blocked with dirts n d governor is doing nothing.

onyfrank:
have u considered Dr Alex Otti?

Alex otti is from arochukwu, why is he claiming ngwa origin now. Clueless mazi