{"id":43987,"date":"2024-07-27T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ifeanyi-ubahs-death-a-rude-shock-peter-obi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T13:05:14","slug":"ifeanyi-ubahs-death-a-rude-shock-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ifeanyi-ubahs-death-a-rude-shock-peter-obi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ifeanyi Ubah\u2019s death, a rude shock \u2013 Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has mourned the passing of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah.<br \/>\nRecall that Ifeanyi Ubah died in London on Saturday<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Obi, in a statement on his X handle, said Ubah\u2019s death was a rude shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI received a rude shock this morning, the news of the death of my dear younger brother, and Senator Representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obi recalled that he was welcomed by Ubah after attending the burial of Chief Pius Onwuzo in Nnewi, Anambra State, on July 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Obi also prayed that God should grant Ubah eternal rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Ubah personally welcomed me at the burial and requested that I visit his house for lunch, to which I pleaded with him to reschedule to another date as I already had several engagements for the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring our discussions on the state of the nation, he told me that he now understands my commitment to the progress of humanity and that he aligns with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe assured me that, despite our party differences, we would work together as a family, in serving our people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, despite party differences, I commended him for his contributions to a better humanity through his Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation, via which he cared for the less privileged in society, by investing in their education and health and pulling people out of poverty. I urged him to continue in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God Almighty who called him home, at this time, forgive his sins and grant him eternal rest, and grant his family, the entire Anambra South Senatorial District; Anambra State; Nigeria; and all of us, the fortitude to bear this sad irreplaceable loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod Almighty protect and bless his family always.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ifeanyi Ubah\u2019s death, a rude shock \u2013 Peter Obi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has mourned the passing of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. Recall&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9756,15,990],"tags":[8,1137,1106,180,794,349,22222,2182,9757,22221],"class_list":["post-43987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ifeanyi-ubah","category-news","category-peter-obi","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-death","tag-ifeanyi","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-peter","tag-rude","tag-shock","tag-ubah","tag-ubahs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}