{"id":5017,"date":"2024-07-27T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T11:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2024-07-27T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T11:33:21","slug":"anambra-south-senator-ifeanyi-uba-dies-in-london-at-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/anambra-south-senator-ifeanyi-uba-dies-in-london-at-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Anambra South Senator, Ifeanyi Uba Dies in London At 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, has died at the age of 48.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lawmaker reportedly flew to the United Kingdom when he seriously took ill a few weeks ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swifte Radio News gathered that Senator Uba died on Saturday morning but could not ascertain whether his death occurred in a hospital or in a hotel in London as there were conflicting reports on where he died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His condition reportedly grew worse in the past 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cause of death could not be established as of Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ubah was elected Senator in 2019 on the platform of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, and re-elected on the same platform in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He crossed over to the All Progressives Congress, APC, few months ago and has indicated interest in seeking the governorship of Anambra State in next year\u2019s election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are reports that he made a monetary donation to the APC in Anambra State two days ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ubah contested the 2021 Anambra governorship election and came fourth in a contest won by Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District, Ifeanyi Ubah, has died at the age of 48.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}