That businessman and the candidate for the All Progressives Candidate (APC), Nicholas Ukachukwu, is one of the top contenders in the November 8 Anambra State governorship election has never been in doubt. But gossip making the rounds in the state is the involvement of his new wife in some of the campaign meetings across the state.
It was gathered that the presence of Mitchel Ihezue, the 2017 Most Beautiful Girl and Miss Universe, has added attraction and glamour to political campaigns in the state, a sort of comic relief to the ‘volatile’ nature of the campaign season. Expectedly, this has brought back the beauty queen into reckoning.
A source disclosed that the light-skinned ex-MBGN, unlike some of her contemporaries, never shies away from her husband’s political meetings and engagements. To some extent, this has also made her more popular.
Before the politician got married to Mitchel, he was married to Nnenna, who died five years ago at the age of 41 in a motor accident along Ore-Okitipupa road alongside the wife of Senator Ndoma Egba and other women. Until her death, she was the executive director of the British Nigerian Academy in Abuja.
Nicholas, a former House of Representatives member in the 9th assembly, comes across as a man who lacks any clear-cut political ideology. A serial political contender, the more he tries, the more his dream eludes him. Sadly, this has made him a subject of ridicule in some quarters.
To realise his long-standing aspiration for the Anambra South Senatorial district in the 2019 election, the Owelle Osumeyi left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) when he could no longer endure the frustration he allegedly suffered at the hands of some hawks in the party, especially Andy Uba and his cronies.
There was a glimmer of hope when he beat many of his other aspirants in APGA, including Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Biafran warlord, Emeka Ojukwu and Dr Okey Chidolue, a former top shot in the Nigerian Ports Authority and a one-time aide to the late Ojukwu. But his hope of flying the party’s ticket was punctured when he lost to Capital Oil boss, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah. However, this time around, he has vowed to do everything humanly to secure his most cherished ambition.
