Enugu Gov, Sullivan Chime In Show of Shame Over N1m
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Gov. Chime
The political battle between Sullivan Chime, Governor of Enugu State, and Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Senate President and Senator representing Enugu West, is getting messier by the day. And as they say when two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers the most. And that is exactly what is happening at the moment to Harford Agana, a traditional ruler of Oduma community, Aninri Local Council, Enugu West.
Late last year, the tradition ruler was divested of his honour as the chairman of Traditional Rulers Council in Enugu West by Gov. Chime for allegedly romancing Ekweremadu and subsequently his certificate of rulership was withdrawn.
According to the traditional ruler who recently came on air to explain his side of the story, he revealed how he approached Senator Ekweremandu at the middle of last year for support and in which in return the Senator gave him a Hiace bus and one million naira as personal gift. And on his return, he was so generous enough to have shared the proceeds with his co-rulers in the council and as well released the bus to be used by the council. But to his bewilderment, he was few days later summoned to a close door meeting by the Governor, alleging him of conspiracy. And before we could say Jack, he was replaced by another traditional ruler to lead the council.
He was also told to release the one million naira and the bus he collected from Ekweremadu to the council, but he refused bluntly as he emphasized it was a personal gift. Those in the know said to buttress his claims, he had to support his claims with papers authenticating him as the rightful beneficiary of the gift, but sources said the governor refused bluntly. The Senator in the picture was also said to have written to the state’s Commissioner of Chieftaincy title, but all to no avail. Few weeks thereafter the monarch was arrested for illegally parading himself as a traditional ruler and disobeying the governor’s directives.
In case you are wondering to know what led to this drama, it’s gathered that Gov. Chime and Senator Ekweremadu are allegedly in cold war over political office. The former is allegedly working assiduously in displacing the latter from actualizing his initial ambition to govern the state or go back to the National Assembly as the governor is allegedly nursing the ambition of running for the senate. The two gladiators we learnt have employed different tactics to outwit each other. The people of the state are expecting more scenes to play out from their collision over the senatorial seat of Enugu West zone currently occupied by Ekweremadu. Chime’s senatorial posters have flooded every nook and cranny of the state likewise those of Ekweremadu.
