By Suzan Okenwa (National Assembly Correspondent)
It was a bad day for Senator Andy Uba as court official, policemen stormed his Asokoro Abuja residence on Tuesday and impounded several of his expensive vehicles over a N50 million debt owed Anambra multi-billionaire oil magnate, Prince Arthur Eze.
The invasion of Senator Andy Uba's home at No. 49 T.Y Danjuma Street, Asokoro, Abuja, followed an earlier order by an FCT Abuja High Court that the said debt should be recovered from the embattled former lawmaker. Uba was said to have taken a loan of N50 million from Arthur Eze's Oil Company, Oranto Petroleum Limited, which he allegedly could not repay as agreed.
Uba was a former Presidential Assistant on Domestic Affairs during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's presidency and whose governorship election in 2007 was quashed by the Supreme Court of Nigeria over alleged subsisting mandate of the former governor of Anambra state and now Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate in 2023, Mr Peter Obi.
His participation in the November 6, 2021 governorship election in Anambra state as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was also nullified by the Supreme Court based on non-existent party primary that purportedly produced Senator Andy Uba as flagbearer for that election. On the basis of this, the apex court ruled that he was never a candidate of the APC in that election.
On March 6, 2017, an Anambra State High Court presided over by Justice Mbonu Nwenyi of the Aguata Judicial Division, Ekwulobia had given a judgement in the case which was affirmed by the Abuja Court that led to the seizure of Senator Andy Uba's properties in Abuja on Tuesday. NNL.
