In an interview with the Human Rights Watch, Ngige said that after the election, he tried to break away from Uba but it wasn’t easy. According to Ngige, “Uba was continually making personal demands that I go to the treasury and take money and give it to him.”
In addition, according to the report, Ngige claimed that shortly before his inauguration, armed men broke into his home and forced him, at gunpoint, to sign a pledge that he would pay Chris Uba the sum of N5billion immediately after assuming office but Uba denied this allegation.
Read more in this interesting book, an attempt to illegally oust a sitting Governor.