How Senate snubbed late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s family, burial, fails to send key delegates
By Phoenix
The Senate leadership, under Godswill Akpabio, appears to have snubbed the family of the late senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, as top sources confirmed to SaharaReporters the alleged abnormalities from the Upper Chamber to the deceased’s family. The Senate leadership failed to set up a committee to liase with the family or the national burial committee.
Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah
Sources disclosed further that the Senate leadership never contacted the burial committee or the family to make input in the preparation of their late colleague’s burial. Ubah who represented the Anambra South Senatorial District at the National Assembly was laid to rest on Friday in his hometown, Otolo Nnewi in Anambra State. Ubah who was re-elected into the 10th Senate under the Young Progressives Party in 2023 but defected to the All Progressives Congress, died in London on July 27. Dignitaries at the event were; the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi; Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia North; former Senate President Bukola Saraki and Senator Victor Umeh of the Anambra Central district.
One of the sources revealed that only two of the nine Senators that attended the burial are from outside the South-East region. The source said, “Despite the eye service and pretences exhibited by the Senate President on Tuesday, 19th Nov during the Senate valedictory session for the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, the leadership of the Senate abandoned the late Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, their colleague who died as a serving Senator, despite being a member of their party, the ruling APC.
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The Senate leadership failed to set up committee to liase with the family or the National burial committee. The Senate leadership never contacted the burial committee or the family to make input in the preparation of their fallen colleague.
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“They did not contribute a kobo to the committee throughout the preparation for the burial and the burial proper. Also, the Senate leadership never sent any delegation to Nnewi on 22nd November 2024 to mourn their departed colleague that died in active service.”