Andy Uba
| Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba | |
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| Senator for Anambra South | |
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Assumed office May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Ikechukwu Obiorah |
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| Born |
14 December 1958 Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria |
| Political party | All Progressives Congress (APC) |
Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba, or Andy Uba (born 14 December 1958), is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Anambra South constituency of Anambra State, Nigeria, in April 2011. He was running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress in February 2017; the leadership crises engulfing the former ruling party PDP may have multivated the move he took.
Uba was born on 14 December 1958 in Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria. His parents originated from Uga, in the Aguata LGA of Anambra State. He attended the Boys High School Awkunanaw, Enugu State. According to some sources, he was admitted to Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, graduating in 1984 with a degree in Geology. He worked for the Golden State Mutual Insurance of California (1985–1992). He studied at California State University and then Buxton University, gaining a PhD in Biosciences in 1996. (Buxton University is incorporated in the Seychelles, and issues degrees to anyone who provides an employment background form and submits the fee.)
Andy Uba's younger brother Chris Uba has been called "one of the PDP chieftains and moneybag".
While still in the United States Uba assisted in the 1999 Presidential elections in Nigeria. Following the elections he returned to Nigeria and was appointed Special Assistant on Special Duties and Domestic Affairs to President Olusegun Obasanjo. In a September 2003 visit by Obasanjo to the United States, Uba was described as the President's right-hand man, and also the gatekeeper for people who wished to talk to the President. Commenting on the incident, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should arrest and prosecute Andy Uba.
In July 2007 Saminu Turaki, a former governor of Jigawa State, was in court on a money laundering charge. Turaki claimed that Andy Uba had witnessed the payment by Turaki of very large sums of money in an attempt to gain approval for Obasanjo to seek election for a third-term. Uba denied the allegation. A newspaper reported that Obasanjo had allocated three oil blocks to Turaki's company, INC Natural Resources, at a give-away price. Turaki had then provided N2 billion to fund the third term campaign, with N50 million being given to each senator who supported the third term. Turaki alleged that as Obasanjo's assistant, Andy Uba, coordinated transfer of the money.
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