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ENUGU STATE GOVERNOR, SULLIVAN CHIME CRITICALLY SICK

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Feelers from the Enugu State
Government House on Friday indicated that all might not be well with Governor
Sullivan Chime’s health. Chime’s last public appearance was at the meeting of South-East Governors Forum on September 9, 2012 in Enugu
and since then, he was yet to be seen by journalists in the Government House
and public functions.

The Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, has been acting in the governor’s
capacity, but his aides are reportedly not pleased with Chime’s directives,
that Onyebuchi should not approve more than N500,000 for any project, no matter
the circumstance.
Our correspondent exclusively gathered from insiders within government circles
that the governor left the country about two weeks before the October 1 Independence
anniversary.
“He was not in a very good condition before he left the country for London.
We noticed it. Although they didn’t want to make it open, maybe because of
journalists,” an insider at the Enugu State Government House, who pleaded not
to be mentioned, reliably told Newsmen.


The protocol staff said, “For some time now, we noticed that the governor has
not been his usual bubbling self. You may not easily know this because he
carries himself well and hardly talks, but some of us knew that the man was
down.
“From what we heard, he is no longer in London;
he was flown to India
last week because his health condition wasn’t getting better. As I speak to you
right now, he is in a hospital in India.”

To heighten the suspicion over the governor’s health, flood victims at Udi
Local Government Area where Chime hails from said they did all they could to
make the governor visit Udi communities that were ravaged by flood in early
September, but to no avail, as they were told that he wasn’t too strong to do
so.
One of the Udi indigenes, Mr. Victor Ike, said Chime could not detail any of
his aides to come on his behalf because he was from Udi and that if he did, especially
for a sensitive matter in his local government, the press would easily have
suspected that something was amiss.

However, some members of the state House of Assembly who pleaded anonymity to
avoid victimisation, said a letter was sent by Chime to the Speaker, but that
the latter did not inform all the lawmakers of the letter.
Also, the Public Relations Officer in the Enugu State House of Assembly, Mr.
Jonah Ugwuanyi, said, “It is not compulsory that the Speaker must read the
letter to the entire House. He could decide to read it out during the plenary
or executive session.”
While donating wheel chairs at the FSP Centre on Zik Avenue, Enugu, about two
weeks ago, Odo reportedly said the governor informed him of his trip.
“The governor wrote me and said he was going on leave and that the deputy
governor would act until he returns,” he said.

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