12 Facts About Andy Uba

Andy Uba won the 2007 Anambra State gubernatorial election on the platform of the People's Democratic Party but was declared unduly elected by the Supreme Court of Nigeria a month later.

Andy Uba defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress in February 2017; the leadership crises engulfing the former ruling party PDP may have motivated his decision.

Andy Uba was born on 14 December 1958 in Enugu, and attended the Boys High School in Awkunanaw.

Andy Uba's parents originated from Uga in the Aguata LGA of Anambra State.

However, Concordia University have denied that Emmanuel Nnamdi Andy Uba graduated from the institution.

In 2007, Andy Uba contested in the PDP primaries for the Anambra State governorship election, and was elected in the 14 April 2007 elections.

In November 2009 it was reported that Andy Uba was planning to run for the delayed Anambra State gubernatorial elections in February 2010 on the Labour Party platform, after the Labour party had invited him to make the move.

Andy Uba returned to the PDP and was nominated as PDP candidate for Anambra South Senatorial district in the April 2011 elections.

Andy Uba won with 63,316 votes, ahead of Chukwmaeze Nzeribe of the All Progressives Grand Alliance with 43,798 and the incumbent senator Ikechukwu Obiorah of the Accord party with 24,724.

Andy Uba's election was challenged by Senator Obiora, the Accord candidate, who claimed that Andy Uba had forged his West African School Certificate and had not obtained any of the university degrees that he claimed.

Reporters claim that both Concordia and California State University said that although Andy Uba enrolled, he did not graduate from neither of the universities.

Andy Uba is married to Pastor Faith Vedelago of Faith Miracle Center Abuja and they have four children together.