By Okey IROEGBU
It is no more a rumour or a gossip that the efforts of High Chief Uzu Analaba to put the traditional leadership of Ala-Ala Oboro on an expected sequence has yielded positive fruits. It should be noted that on the demise of the former traditional ruler from Ogbuebule, it was expected that the next Eze would come from Ekebedi, the second community sharing the autonomy with Ogbuebule.
This idea when presented was not accepted by a group of people from Ogbuebule which led to the presentation of a candidate to the stool in the person of High Chief Ndubuisi Ubani. With this development, the entire Autonomous community resolved to allow the stool to be contested for by the candidates of Ogbuebule, High Chief Ubani and that of Ekebedi, High Chief Uzu Analaba. At the end of voting the keenly contested election was in favour of High Chief Analaba by just one vote where he scored 44 votes against the 43 of High Chief Ubani. Eze-elect Uzu Analaba was born on 19th September, 1954 at Ekebedi Village, Oboro in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State, Nigeria. He attended Local Authority Primary School, Ekebedi and obtained First School leaving Certificate. After the civil war, High Chief Analaba travelled to Lagos in search of employment and to further his education. He got employed with RT Briscoe (Nigeria) Plc in April 1972. He immediately enrolled at Ogbenevo Secondary & Commercial Academy Apapa where he studied for GCE Ordinary and Advanced Levels. He got admission into Yaba College of Technology (Part time) to read Business Administration. On completion of his course at the college, he was promoted personal Assistant to the Managing Director of R. T Briscoe (Nigeria) Plc in 1980, a position he held till 1985 when he resigned his appointment and joined Nestle Foods (Nigeria) Plc. High Chief Analaba registered with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), London and studied at Student Pye (Accountancy Training School), Yaba Lagos for his examinations of ICSA. In 1996, High Chief Uzu Analaba was transferred to Nestle (Nigeria) Plc Abuja. While in Abuja he obtained
Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Public Relations/Advertising from University of Maiduguri and was conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD) by Divinity College & Seminary, an affiliate of Bethel University & Seminary, Ohio, USA. He resigned his appointment with Nestle (Nigeria) Plc in 2001 and incorporated Femason Limited, a consultancy firm with interest in property, construction and engineering services. High Chief Analaba is a renowned philanthropist and grass root mobilizer, a man of integrity, highly respected within and outside Ikwuano Local Government Area. In 2011 High Chief Analaba provided his Community with 33KVA transformer through Abia State Government and in the same year he provided plots of land to FERMA in Ekebedi for the construction of their Observation and Service post. In April 2013 Chief Analaba offered employment to over ten (10) unemployed youths from the Community. He revived the cultural and traditional values of Oboro that almost heading to extinction, an achievements widely appreciated by all Oboro citizens especially the youths. Currently Chief Analaba represents his Community at the University and Community Relations committee of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. He is also a member of the following socio-cultural and development associations; Council of Ndi Oba Oboro, Ikwuano Development Union Abuja, Branch, Oboro Council of Chiefs, Patron Oboro Community Welfare Association Abuja Branch, Ekeoma Social Club Lagos, Global Friends Club, Lagos. In recognition and appreciation of his contributions to the development of Oboro Community and Ikwuano Local Government, High Chief Analaba was conferred with the Chieftaincy title of Uzu 1 of Oboro in 1998 by the late paramount ruler of Oboro Ancient Kingdom, HRM Eze Abel I. Egesie, Eze Oha 1 Oboro. Presently, High Chief Uzu Analaba is the President of Nde Oba Oboro and Aka-ji-offor Ala Oboro. High Chief
Analaba is happily married with children. Today we celebrate High Chief Uzu Analaba Oleka Ndukwe Ogu who on the 30th of October 2023 was elected an Eze of Ala-Ala Oboro Autonomous community, a stool which became vacant on the demise Eze Ujah, the former traditional ruler of the kingdom.
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