As the November 16, 2013 gubernatorial
election draws nearer, the APC candidate,
Senator Chris Ngige has embroiled
himself in unwanted controversy following
allegations that he slapped a Catholic
priest, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Ezekwona at a
burial ceremony in Nanka, Agulu,
Anambra State on Thursday.
Senator Ngige was said to have become
furious when he erroneously concluded
that Rev. Fr. Ezekwona was deliberately
standing in his way and suddenly snapped,
pouncing on the hapless priest, strangling
him first and then unleashing a torrent of
slaps on both sides of the clergy man's
face.
The incident took place at the at the
burial of the mother of the Catholic
Bishop of Awka Diocese, Bishop Paulinus
Ezeokafor in Nanka which attracted
prominent sons and daughter the state
including politicians.
An eye witness, Obiora Onwuama, who
observed the scuffle, revealed that after
unleashing his fury on Rev. Fr. Ezekwona,
Ngige was not fully satisfied and promptly
instructed his personal aides to torture
him and they promptly pounced and
inflicted more bodily injuries on him.
“We were all horrified at the sight.
Senator Ngige must have acted blindly
because the man was dressed in his
cassock. There were screams of shock and
horror from the onlookers but Senator
Ngige could not be stopped. He must
have mistaken Fr. Evaristus for a member
of the opposition party,” Onwuama
explained in total disbelief.
According to him, the earlier assumption
that Senator Ngige may have acted in
error soon gave way to a deeper fear
when upon his instruction, his aides
descended heavily on the hapless priest,
punching and kicking him to the
consternation of onlookers.
The APC gubernatorial candidate seems
to be courting controversy with ease in
recent times starting with his ill-
conceived statement justifying the
deportation of 79 Igbos from Lagos to the
poorly timed kick-off of his campaign rally
in Onitsha on the same day that the Ofala
Festival was taking place which provoked
the anger of the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe
Nnaemeka Achebe and his cabinet.
Ngige was also recently reported to have
engaged the Governor of Anambra State,
Mr. Peter Obi in a futile tussle for
prominence when he hijacked the
governor’s seat at a recent Mass
conducted by Arch-Bishop Valerian Okeke
at the Onitsha Prisons and rebuffed all
entreaties to relinquish the seat.
The diminutive Senator has also been
fingered for pulling down and pouring
black oil on the APGA candidate’s
billboards placed in strategic locations
across the state.

If this is true, then he is not good enough to be the governor of the state.