UBANESEOKWU: OFFERING SERVICE TO HIS PEOPLE, EVEN FAR AWAY FROM POLITICAL POWER

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali 

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The name Senator Alphonsus Obi Igbeke also known as…. UBANESEOKWU, from Nsugbe in the north of Onitsha, in Anambra, east of Nigeria, remains a name that needs little or not much introduction in the eastern part of Nigeria political hall of fame

This is perhaps the only visible man not in power yet still on daily, monthly  and yearly bases offering service to his people, he is no more a senator, but yet he live like a  man in power, offering scholarship, building roads and coming to the aids of the less privilege in his state and the country at large

The motivation to wordsmith this piece was as a result of how his names is being mention in many areas of Anambra state

This is highly commendable that somebody who is not in power or seeking political position should be rendering this manner of service. Not too long in an electronically chat encounter, I appealed that he tells our readers his motivation. His revert was most motivational: ‘’ all I do, till date, long after I am no more senators is based on a vow I made to almighty God, long ago

‘’Indeed, my service to humanity is a commitment /vow I made to my creator, the one and only living God long ago and which till date I derive a lot of joy from as part of glorifying GOD for his mercies upon me from when I was born till date, I must therefore let the world know, through your sensitive medium that all I do  therefore has nothing to do with politics or better still seeking future political office or favor, I feel every inch a contended man’’ he postulated

FACTS ABOUT UBANESE

Alphonsus Obi Igbeke was sworn in as Senator for the Anambra North constituency of Anambra State, Nigeria on 25 May 2010 after the election of Joy Emordi of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had been annulled.
Igbeke, popularly known as Ubanese, was born in 1962 in Nsugbe to the north of Onitsha in Anambra State. He studied in Nigeria and the USA, earning a PhD in Engineering Sciences. Returning to Nigeria he went into the contracting business, and became a successful businessman and very visible Politian
Igbeke was a contender to be a PDP candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives in the 2003 elections, but failed to be nominated. He transferred to the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and ran for election on that platform, but lost to the PDP candidate. Igbeke allegedly used his political connections to arrange for the election tribunal panel to agree that his name had been illegally removed from the PDP primaries and he was declared elected.

In the April 2007 election for the Senate seat of Anambra North, Igbeke ran on the ANPP platform. The PDP candidate Joy Emordi was declared the winner, a decision which he appealed. Igbeke's eventual assumption of office in the Senate followed a decision by an Enugu appeal court that declared him the winner of the 2007 senatorial election. The Senate had resisted swearing him in on the grounds that an appeal was in progress, but eventually accepted the court's decision. The vast Nigeria mass populace had strongly criticized the Senate leaders over the delay. At the end of the tunnel bright light shun for Senator Igbekwe and his faithful