What Next for Chris Uba?

Has the political career of maverick politician, Chris Uba, a former member of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s kitchen cabinet suddenly come to an end?

This is the question agitating the minds of many who have been following his story with interest, particularly given his unenviable status nowadays.

 It would be recalled that in his halcyon days as a top player in Anambra State politics, Uba commanded a lot of respect, popular, powerful and ruthless.

He was both dreaded and adored. His words were law; when he sneezed the whole state caught a cold. Many literally worshipped the ground he stepped on. Uba was a demigod of some sort; he made many politically and at the same time, marred the political career of others.

But today his political dynasty seems to have crumbled before his very eyes. 

For political watchers, the trajectory to this political flameout began in 2019 when he along with his brother, Andy Uba went for each other’s jugular over the battle of supremacy in the state, in what many in the state described as greed and over-ambition

They decided to contest against each other for the Senate in Anambra South Senatorial District on different political platforms.

Andy was the senator representing the constituency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while Chris contested for the same position on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).This, as gathered, cracked the Uba political dynasty and Ifeanyi Ubah swiftly took advantage of the rift to launch his political missile. Expectedly, he trounced both of them under the umbrella of a relatively known party, the Young Progressive Party (YPP).

Also, in 2023, Chris, who erroneously believed he still had some political importance left, contested against the Capital Oil boss, not knowing that he had indeed become a paper tiger politically.  Again, he was humiliated at the poll.

A few weeks ago, his case against Senator Ubah was thrown out of the window by the Appeal Court, finally putting the last nail in the coffin of his erstwhile powerful political empire.