The worrisome security situation in southeastern Nigeria has forced Senator Andy Uba, a former Special Assistant on Special Duties and Domestic Affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, to give out one of his daughters in a traditional marriage ceremony in Abuja.
The colourful ceremony took place in his palatial residence in Abuja, instead of Anambra, his home state, for fear of what unknown gunmen could unleash on his family and guests. The ceremony, no doubt, brought back his signature coy smile on his face, a year after he suffered a huge political loss at the 2021 Anambra State governorship election. The said daughter, Chrystal from his first wife, Gloria Obiageli, is a lawyer by profession and was called to the bar five years ago after bagging a law degree from a university in the United Kingdom. Times have indeed changed as just
five years ago, Uba shut down his community, Uga in Anambra State, for the traditional marriage ceremony of Nkemjika, his first daughter with his first wife. Uba is not alone in this new fad to hold traditional ceremonies, considered an important Igbo cultural norm away from their ancestral clan. Quite a few prominent Igbo men have jumped on this train for obvious reasons.
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