Ngige, APC Guber Candidate Slaps Catholic Priest

By James Eze 



As the November 16, 2013 gubernatorial election draws nearer, the APC candidate, Senator Chris Ngige seems to be losing grip on the race as shown in a strange incident which led to his slapping of a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Ezekwona at a burial ceremony in Nanka, Agulu, Anambra State on Thursday.

Senator Ngige who seems to be on a rollercoaster since he emerged the APC flag-bearer in the coming polls, grinding from one controversy to another, 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 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.

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Na war?

Ehhh

Propaganda

Useless propaganda

I don't like APC/Ngige, but this is a crooked tactics. It is condemnable and of course wont fly!

No be only SLAP he NOD am too.. Bunch of Losers...
Ngige all the way

Source must be the nigerian version of "the newyorker"

Dump Op,dumb Post even an illiterate knows the news is false

Can't link the source....

Hey! Pls God, let this not be true because Chinua Achebe said, "When the gods want to kill a man they first make him mad".

If there's a video of this then we'd like to see it and not a callous calumny against a man. Afterall, every man is entitled to an ambition in life.

If a video of this comes out then Ngige should simply kiss the race viva forever and go back to Abuja and see if can sponsor at least a single bill in the senate for the Nigerian people.

What kind of malicious lie is this? I watched on Channels TV Ngige's visit to the catholic bishop on the death of his(bishop) mother and Ngige's visit to the ofala festival of a particular town and also to a particular Igwe. Nothing of such happened. Why do some edioots resort to lies?

1MCN: Hey! Pls God, let this not be true because Chinua Achebe said, "When the gods want to kill a man they first make him mad".

If there's a video of this then we'd like to see it and not a callous calumny against a man. Afterall, every man is entitled to an ambition in life.

If a video of this comes out then Ngige should simply kiss the race viva forever and go back to Abuja and see if can sponsor at least a single bill in the senate for the Nigerian people.

Sorry to burst your bubbles,there's no video!

Hehehehehehe.....bros...this resemble lie oh.

Hehehehehehe.....bros...this thing resemble lie oh.

Is there a town called Nanka inside Agulu? Obviously no! The funeral ceremony took place in Nanka but the paid writer subtituted it with his master's hometown.

poor things!

Lies

If and only if Anambrarians can now see that Ngige detractors have nothing on the man other than nauseating and hell-sending lies and debilitating propaganda

I thought after his aborted 1st time as Governor,he would have lost popularity,pedigree and political momentum but what we have seen is a man loved genuinely by all and sundry BUT whose sin seem to be his error of association...rather than a Nationalist that he is,some wish him to be an Ethnic bigot. Rather than a bridge-builder with other ethnic groups that he is trying to be,some crave him to be an Island,loafer,loaner and irredentist.

Dr Chris Ngige's only fault is his height but in all other areas of public life,he towers above rest

But if God be God.....Ngige will tower above his traducers

PROPAGANDA ALERT...

This propaganda tight oooo...Make em no be true cos if na true...Ezigbo nsogbu dikwa

To all those people shouting "lies" and "propaganda", what if this allegation proves to be right? I hope you guys will cover your faces in shame because i just read some tweets about the incident. Anyway, let us hope this is not true.

sagombugo: If and only if Anambrarians can now see that Ngige detractors have nothing on the man other than nauseating and hell-sending lies and debilitating propaganda

I thought after his aborted 1st time as Governor,he would have lost popularity,pedigree and political momentum but what we have seen is a man loved genuinely by all and sundry BUT whose sin seem to be his error of association...rather than a Nationalist that he is,some wish him to be an Ethnic bigot. Rather than a bridge-builder with other ethnic groups that he is trying to be,some crave him to be an Island,loafer,loaner and irredentist.

Dr Chris Ngige's only fault is his height but in all other areas of public life,he towers above rest

But if God be God.....Ngige will tower above his traducers

what is so faulty about his height? Shebi na God create am like that. Biko hapu nwoke mmadu ya nara ikuku!

gbanikiti: Sorry to burst your bubbles,there's no video!

Nwanne, no bubbles retained. My position is clear, and am never shifting it here; nobody should so callously and mischieviously malign the man simply because he has ambition and his ambition is contending with theirs. Mana, emechaa ya awuru na ihe ekwuru wu ihe nwoke ahu mere.....
Am not buying the news. I can't talk this with anyone if I don't see a video evidence. That's my position, gbanikiti

this propaganda wont sell, shame on victor umeh and his paid sycophant writers, what a waste of talent, mental slavery!!!!!!!!

gbanikiti: what is so faulty about his height? Shebi na God create am like that. Biko hapu nwoke mmadu ya nara ikuku!

Double post

gbanikiti: what is so faulty about his height? Shebi na God create am like that. Biko hapu nwoke mmadu ya nara ikuku!

D intention was to make a joke out of the height thingy just like every1 including Rochas Okorocha and Adams Oshiomhole did @ APC onitsha rally. I am an eternal fan of Dr Chris Ngige!!!

Onwa ga eti ozo!!!

slimghost: To all those people shouting "lies" and "propaganda", what if this allegation proves to be right? I hope you guys will cover your faces in shame because i just read some tweets about the incident. Anyway, let us hope this is not true.

Don't stress or fret over this piece of poo....its all lies from the well of indignation and the backyard of frustrated people

I watched the news report about this same issue and it was a total opposite of the scenario being painted by the OP

sagombugo:

Don't stress or fret over this piece of poo....its all lies from the well of indignation and the backyard of frustrated people

I watched the news report about this same issue and it was a total opposite of the scenario being painted by the OP

I wonder why people would use the name of an ordained priest for such propaganda. It's quite condemnable if this is false.