The senator representing Anambra Central senatorial zone and APC candidate in the November 16 Governorship election in Anambra State, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige has described as false reports that he slapped a priest during Friday’s burial ceremony of the mother of the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor at Nanka in Orumba North Local Government area of Anambra State.
Dismissing the story, Dr Ngige, who spoke through the Director, Media & Publicity in the his Campaign Organisation, Chief Charles Amilo, noted that with Anambra State gubernatorial elections very close, all sorts of rumours will be flying around.
According to Chief Amilo: “Someone who was in All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) once paid heavily to create the fiction that Ngige was pelted with stones in Awka, but time and the flow of information proved him wrong.”
Continuing Amilo said: “Ngige has nothing to do with what they are twisting, but we do not blame opponents who are so afraid that they would destroy the billboards of another and fabricate lies against them. Being a Knight of the St John’s International, one of the highest Orders in the Catholic Church, Senator Ngige has no business arguing with a priest and in a church premises; so no person should believe that story.
“We are more comfortable discussing how Ngige will bring back regional water supply in the state, free education and free infant medical facilities for Anambra. We want to discuss how Ngige will build an airport that the current government of Anambra State refused to build and how parents in Anambra State will no longer pay school fees at all in Primary and Secondary schools, but instead, get the kind of education that will make our youths employable themselves after school-leaving.”
Source: Daily Times
