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The former governor of Anambra state Chris Ngige has lost his father, Ozo Akunnia Pius Okonkwo Ngige, according to a report on This Day.
In a statement issued yesterday by the ex-governor and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Pius Ngige died last Friday, September 4, at the age of 105 years in his home town, Alor in Idemili south local government area of Anambra state.
Condolence messages have since trickled in from party members and associates in the home of the late Pius Ngige.
Victor Umeh, the former national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance has also condoled with the senator.
According to the report, his funeral arrangements will be announced later by the family.
The late Pius Ngige was born in 1910 in Alor, Anambra state. He started his career as an Assistant Foreman Building (carpentry) rising to the post of Supervisor Building (carpentry) in the then Public Works Department of the Eastern Regional Colonial Government.
He was in the team that worked with the colonial masters to build many health centres, under the one-health-centre-per-village scheme especially in the then old Onitsha Province of the Eastern Region.
Ngige retired from the service in 1958 having disagreed with the British senior engineers on some fundamental labour issues about the treatment being meted to Nigerian junior workers and artisans.
He became self-employed in 1959 and operated his private business as P.O Ngige and Sons Enterprises a building engineering firm. He was the co-founder and treasurer of the indigenous Federated Association of Nigerian Contractors, East Central State Branch in 1971.
He is survived by many children, grandchildren and great grandchildren among whom are Ugodinobi Edwin Ngige, Bernadette Nwachukwu, Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, the former governor of Anambra state, Lady Felicia Obiefuna, a United States-based immigration attorney, Maryrose Ozee Nwadike and Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN), a Lagos-based legal practitioner.
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