Alex Ikwechegh 


By News Editor


A member of the House of Representatives, Alex Ikwechegh, has been caught on a video  assaulting an e-hailing (Bolt) driver who went to deliver a package to him at his house.


The distressed driver whose name is yet unknown in a viral video filmed what transpired between them in Ikwechegh’s residence in Maitama, Abuja.


The video depicted the visibly angered Reps member representing Aba North & South Federal Constituency (APGA) raining abuses on the Bolt driver, threatening him and finally repeatedly slapping him.


In the footage Ikwechegh was seen talking to a lady and insulting the driver for telling him to come out and get the package the driver was meant to deliver to him. His caller repeatedly apologised to him but he grew more enraged and furious 


 Ikwechegh insisted that the request was disrespectful given his social status. 


"Can you imagine this rat?. I can make this rat disappear in the whole of Nigeria and nothing will happen", he threatened the driver


When the driver repeatedly asked to be paid. The lawmaker lost all control screaming: "Who  the hell do you think you are talking to? (Slaps him twice) Do you know who I am? I am a Senator of this Republic. Do you know who the fuck I am? How dare you? Do you know who I am?"


He repeatedly asked the driver: “Do you know who I am? Can you imagine this rat? I am not going to give this boy one naira of my money.


“I am not going to call my policemen to beat you up, I will do that myself. I will show that I am a big brother to you, tie you up, lie you down and put you in my generator house. Do you know where you are? Because you saw me sitting outside here. Look at this monkey.”


When the driver requested the delivery fee, the politician slapped him multiple times querying if the driver knew who he was talking to.


“Do you know who I am I just slapped you and there’s nothing you will do. My name is Honourable Alex Ikwechegh, tell them (public) I slapped you. Call the Inspector General of Police that I slapped you, let him come. Record me very well,” he boasted and later attempted to snatch the phone recording the incident from the driver 


Recall that in September 2023, the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Umuahia, Abia State capital, led by Justice Adeyinka Aderibigbe, sacked Emeka Nnamani, who is a member of the Labour Party and ordered that a certificate of return be issued to Ikwechegh, a candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), who came second in the 2023 general election.