My Wife Has Some Health Challenges And I’m Not Ready To Expose Her To Be Ridiculed- Gov. Chime

At last the Governor has decided to speak. He spoke last
night to some journalists that his wife has not been placed on house arrest by
him or anyone. My wife has some health challenges, and I am not ready to expose
her for people to ridicule, he said. His wife was also present with her senior brother and other family members of the Governor.
Here is what they told Punch.

Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State on Tuesday night
denied subjecting his wife, Mrs. Clara Chime, to house arrest and has vowed to
protect her from being exposed to ridicule.

Chime made this denial in the presence of some journalists,
his wife and her elder brother, Mr. Tony Igwe.

Also present were the governor’s siblings, Mrs. May Oji and
Dr. Jide Chime, as well as Mrs. Chime’s neuro-psychiatric doctor, Dr. Aham
Agumuo, among a few others.

At the interview session, the governor’s wife denied sending
any petition to the National Human Rights Commission alleging unlawful
detention by her husband.

She also denied hiring the services of Mr. Femi Falana to
seek her freedom from an alleged house arrest at the Governor’s Lodge, Enugu.

Falana had claimed in his letter to media houses and the
Inspector-General of Police that he was engaged by the governor’s wife to seek
her freedom from alleged house arrest.

The state governor, however, stated that it was “so
disturbing” for him to speak out publicly about his wife’s health challenges.

He vowed to do all within his power, no matter the personal
pains, to protect her from ridicule.

“Well, my wife has some medical challenges and it would be
very unkind for me to talk about her condition on the pages of newspapers.

“I have done everything to protect her integrity and I’m not
now going to expose her to ridicule because some people want to exploit her
situation to drag me into a needless war of words,” Chime said.