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,” said an insider
at the Enugu State Government House, who pleaded not to be mentioned.
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.
Culled- Sunday Punch
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