THE DRAMA CONCERNING CLARA CHIME BEING ALLEGEDLY DETAINED IS CAREFULLY UNFOLDING OOOOH.
According to Saharareporters
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has confirmed reports that he is keeping his wife incarcerated, but that he is doing so in her interest.
“I wanted the best for her and that’s why I pleaded with the doctors to have her treated at home,” he stated during a press conference in Enugu. “That’s also why I allowed her access to her telephone and laptop which unfortunately led to the stage where I’m now being falsely accused of imprisoning or detaining my own wife.”
Offering an explanation about his decision, the governor said, “My wife has some medical challenges and it would be very unkind for me to talk about her condition on the pages of newspapers,” the governor said at a strange press conference in Government House. “I’ve 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.
With Clara Chime by his side at the conference, he disclosed that the battle concerning his wife’s health situation commenced even before his inauguration in 2011.
“It was so bad at a time that she had to be taken out of here (Governor’s Lodge) for treatment. When she stabilized, I pleaded with her doctors if she could be brought back here to be receiving her treatment at home and they graciously accepted.
“There was a time she was confined indoors and that was strictly on her doctors’ advice. She’s here and she can confirm or deny it. Also, the doctors then advised against allowing her access to telephones and laptop.”
Asserting that he would never say or do anything to undermine the dignity of his wife, he said his “big blunder” was to have allowed her access to the telephone and her laptop, against the advice of her doctor, a mistake for which he is paying dearly.
“Her brother is here, her doctor is here with us too. You people (journalists) can confirm anything you want from them, either here and at your convenience. Would I have been a better husband if I asked her to leave the Lodge because of her medical challenge? Would it not have been more convenient for me if I allowed her to stay and be treated in the hospital?”
In a story broken by SaharaReporters one week ago in which she begged human rights bodies to come to her rescue, Mrs. Chime complained bitterly that two psychiatrists, Dr. Onwukwe and Dr. Agumuo, had prescribed “all kinds of drugs that ends up keeping me acute depressed and also drives me into hallucinations.”
Dr. Aham Agumuo, identified as Mrs. Chime’s neuro-psychiatric doctor, was present at the conference along with Tony Igwe, her elder brother; as well as Mrs. May Oji and Dr. Jide Chime, the governor’s siblings.
Following that first complaint, human rights lawyer Femi Falana wrote a letter to the Inspector-General of Police on her behalf urging him to have her released. She then wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with the same complaint of unlawful detention by her husband.
Offered a chance to speak at the press conference, for a long time Mrs. Chime was silent, ignoring persuasion from her husband and her brother. At a point, her brother Tony took her to an adjacent room where they spent a few minutes together before returning to the table. Tony then declared that she was willing to talk but Mrs. Chime dramatically delivered only another round of silence.
Eventually, the First Lady said: “You (referring to the governor) and my doctor can speak on my behalf.”
To that, the governor politely replied: “Yes, I’m your husband and should ordinarily do so but you know I’m the one being accused of detaining you. This way, I’ve lost that privilege to speak for you, at least on this case. The story out there also is that your doctor is probably scared of me and gives you all kinds of drugs, sometimes against your wish.”
Mrs. Chime merely said: “My doctor and I don’t have any problem.”
Concerning the petition to the NHRC, she corroborated an earlier text message she had sent to her husband that she had not met Falana or engaged him to seek her release from a purported unlawful custody. But she admitted that she wrote a letter to Dr. Agumuo and another doctor overseas to whom she was introduced, but said she did not know how the letter leaked to the public.
She also admitted that she was once confined to a room without access to her telephone and laptop. “That was when I had a serious crisis,” she said.
Mrs. Chime also confirmed that she has the key to her room and controls her entry and exit, contrary to the claim in the petition that she had been locked up for asking to be allowed to leave. Her grouse was that she had not been allowed to leave the premises, but it was learned that she attended Mass last Sunday.
Governor Chime chipped in: “All I want to reassure you is that she is safe here. Her confinement within the premises for now is at the instance of her doctor who is here. Why would I want my wife locked up? If it had been that I had issues with her, there are many ways to resolve them. But that’s not the case. She is not well and I’m willing to do anything to support and protect her.
“It was always more convenient for me to have taken the easier route but that would have been very callous and ungodly. When I had my own health challenge, I was receiving treatment in London and thinking about her, making sure she received the right treatment. I’m forever grateful to her doctors who have done a great job. Both families are billed to meet very soon and after that, I’ll take a decision which will be in the interest of both parties.”
Challenging the petition to the IGP by Mr. Falana, the governor said: “He’s my professional colleague but sometimes you leave people to their conscience. I won’t join words with him. Has he met this client of his as he claimed to assess her state of mind and determine if she can give him the right brief to guide his case? Did he ask for access to her or to me and was denied? I leave it at that.”
He described the development as the penalty a public officer faces, adding that when he was receiving treatment in London, some of the newspapers reported that I had died in India.
“I’ve never been to India and had never applied for an Indian visa,” he stated. “Today, the story is that I’ve imprisoned my own wife in my residence. I know their motives but I wish those behind such wicked tales well.”
He did not identify the people or their motives.
*Let God intervene sha,i dont know the truth but let God intervene.
“I wanted the best for her and that’s why I pleaded with the doctors to have her treated at home,” he stated during a press conference in Enugu. “That’s also why I allowed her access to her telephone and laptop which unfortunately led to the stage where I’m now being falsely accused of imprisoning or detaining my own wife.”
Offering an explanation about his decision, the governor said, “My wife has some medical challenges and it would be very unkind for me to talk about her condition on the pages of newspapers,” the governor said at a strange press conference in Government House. “I’ve 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.
With Clara Chime by his side at the conference, he disclosed that the battle concerning his wife’s health situation commenced even before his inauguration in 2011.
“It was so bad at a time that she had to be taken out of here (Governor’s Lodge) for treatment. When she stabilized, I pleaded with her doctors if she could be brought back here to be receiving her treatment at home and they graciously accepted.
“There was a time she was confined indoors and that was strictly on her doctors’ advice. She’s here and she can confirm or deny it. Also, the doctors then advised against allowing her access to telephones and laptop.”
Asserting that he would never say or do anything to undermine the dignity of his wife, he said his “big blunder” was to have allowed her access to the telephone and her laptop, against the advice of her doctor, a mistake for which he is paying dearly.
“Her brother is here, her doctor is here with us too. You people (journalists) can confirm anything you want from them, either here and at your convenience. Would I have been a better husband if I asked her to leave the Lodge because of her medical challenge? Would it not have been more convenient for me if I allowed her to stay and be treated in the hospital?”
In a story broken by SaharaReporters one week ago in which she begged human rights bodies to come to her rescue, Mrs. Chime complained bitterly that two psychiatrists, Dr. Onwukwe and Dr. Agumuo, had prescribed “all kinds of drugs that ends up keeping me acute depressed and also drives me into hallucinations.”
Dr. Aham Agumuo, identified as Mrs. Chime’s neuro-psychiatric doctor, was present at the conference along with Tony Igwe, her elder brother; as well as Mrs. May Oji and Dr. Jide Chime, the governor’s siblings.
Following that first complaint, human rights lawyer Femi Falana wrote a letter to the Inspector-General of Police on her behalf urging him to have her released. She then wrote to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with the same complaint of unlawful detention by her husband.
Offered a chance to speak at the press conference, for a long time Mrs. Chime was silent, ignoring persuasion from her husband and her brother. At a point, her brother Tony took her to an adjacent room where they spent a few minutes together before returning to the table. Tony then declared that she was willing to talk but Mrs. Chime dramatically delivered only another round of silence.
Eventually, the First Lady said: “You (referring to the governor) and my doctor can speak on my behalf.”
To that, the governor politely replied: “Yes, I’m your husband and should ordinarily do so but you know I’m the one being accused of detaining you. This way, I’ve lost that privilege to speak for you, at least on this case. The story out there also is that your doctor is probably scared of me and gives you all kinds of drugs, sometimes against your wish.”
Mrs. Chime merely said: “My doctor and I don’t have any problem.”
Concerning the petition to the NHRC, she corroborated an earlier text message she had sent to her husband that she had not met Falana or engaged him to seek her release from a purported unlawful custody. But she admitted that she wrote a letter to Dr. Agumuo and another doctor overseas to whom she was introduced, but said she did not know how the letter leaked to the public.
She also admitted that she was once confined to a room without access to her telephone and laptop. “That was when I had a serious crisis,” she said.
Mrs. Chime also confirmed that she has the key to her room and controls her entry and exit, contrary to the claim in the petition that she had been locked up for asking to be allowed to leave. Her grouse was that she had not been allowed to leave the premises, but it was learned that she attended Mass last Sunday.
Governor Chime chipped in: “All I want to reassure you is that she is safe here. Her confinement within the premises for now is at the instance of her doctor who is here. Why would I want my wife locked up? If it had been that I had issues with her, there are many ways to resolve them. But that’s not the case. She is not well and I’m willing to do anything to support and protect her.
“It was always more convenient for me to have taken the easier route but that would have been very callous and ungodly. When I had my own health challenge, I was receiving treatment in London and thinking about her, making sure she received the right treatment. I’m forever grateful to her doctors who have done a great job. Both families are billed to meet very soon and after that, I’ll take a decision which will be in the interest of both parties.”
Challenging the petition to the IGP by Mr. Falana, the governor said: “He’s my professional colleague but sometimes you leave people to their conscience. I won’t join words with him. Has he met this client of his as he claimed to assess her state of mind and determine if she can give him the right brief to guide his case? Did he ask for access to her or to me and was denied? I leave it at that.”
He described the development as the penalty a public officer faces, adding that when he was receiving treatment in London, some of the newspapers reported that I had died in India.
“I’ve never been to India and had never applied for an Indian visa,” he stated. “Today, the story is that I’ve imprisoned my own wife in my residence. I know their motives but I wish those behind such wicked tales well.”
He did not identify the people or their motives.
*Let God intervene sha,i dont know the truth but let God intervene.
There is definitely more to this....than it meets the eye.
ReplyDeleteHusband and wife issue is difficult to settle when both parties keep changing stories trying to deceive unfortunately themselves.
May God sort them out.
With this, the Governor has literally said eff off and MYB. The drama continues behind the high walls.
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It is obvious that Chime is detaining this woman, he and his doctors have been drugging her, unfortunately the woman's family nah hungry people so there is nothing they can do.
ReplyDeleteStella please let go of this story. If you do your research well you will find out that Clara has Mental problems. You are not serving her by trying to embarass the Governor. If he leaves her, she will walk the streets Naked. Is that what you want so that they will say he used her for Juju?
ReplyDeleteI know Clara well and she had this problem long before marrying Chime.
Oloshi.husband thief.am sure ur happy now.liar.ashewoooo.na u dey mad . idiot.
DeleteShey I told u people on my last coment about dis, if she leave that govt house eh,she will be a full blown mad woman, they are really trying their best, d gov nd odas, but u knw now, wen sm1s head is not corect, d person dosent think well, it is not her fault, its just cus of her health but she wnt understand, I pray God in his infinit mercy, will forgive her her sins nd heal her Amen.
ReplyDeleteWithout reading this epistle and having known Clara in university, I believe she must have been fighting some girls bcos of her husbands philandering. The man must have Thot to himself, this woman must be mad. And organised psychiatric doctors to give her meds which made her depressed and hallucinating. My two cents
ReplyDeleteLol @ anon 2.49pm Hitler's moustache!
ReplyDeleteGov. Chime please do the needful. Except you intend to kill her in that solitude state, your actions are very wrong legally, medically and emotionally.
If you can't take care of her as you would do to your mother, please take her back to her people. They won't be ashamed of her. This is not fair!
I hear say him give the wife sister bele and she dey london na wetinb make clara head turn yakata...plus her family like money die....
ReplyDelete@Amarachukwu.......wetin be your own nah? are you the Govenors AGENT?
ReplyDeleteI don't buy this story.the whole thing is staged biko.fowl nyash will soon open.*EarsOnGround
ReplyDeleteAmarachukwu are you Ebere?
ReplyDeleteStella, na juju wey Clara do back fire so oh. Her family sef shame for am. That's why they won't take her back for now because the only stability and resource to help her is with her husband right now.
ReplyDelete@Amarachukwu u are more stupid than I tot can't u keep quite if u don't have anything to say? I can see u are really enving Clara u wish to be in her position for ur dream better mind ur self and ur comment stupid idiat mtcheeeeeew
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ReplyDeleteI honestly bliv the woman truly has some mental issues, even b4 i read d Guvnor s statement. I think u guys shld just leave them alone. Truly what do u expect the man to do? If he leaves her alone now,pipu will say she was abandoned in her time of need,or i can imagine d caption" Guvnor s wife walks atark naked on d streets" God forbid! Leave them alone pls...... Na wa for being public figure sef. All ur moves r questioned and suspicious,guess it s one of the prices to pay. Titi
ReplyDeleteI believe her mental issues have a better chance of being treated if she remains with her hisband.
ReplyDeleteWhy are people saying he should release her? To who? Does she and her family have the money to treat her ailment? Or do people just want to laugh when she starts roaming the streets? If the husband had kicked her out because of her health, people would call him wicked. Her family members are satisfied she's being treated well in her matrimonial home. Others should back off.
Well, I believe that if truly this woman has become psychotic, that her gov husband would rather send her abroad than confine her to a room at home where insiders will prolly leak the story to the Nigerian press. Which he is saying is what he tried to avoid from preying eyes...supposedly.
ReplyDeleteCos No matter how loyal his household staff may be to him, if this woman is truly sick, someone would surly leak the story. Therefore I do not believe that her situation is so bad that she had to be confined.
He has the wherewithal to treat her abroad, afterall he was flown abroad when he was sick (according to him). So why all of a sudden does he now have so much faith in the docs in Nigeria to treat her..if so severe a case?
This will be more complex bcos her relatives are not speaking out. It is the gov's words against his wife's... now that her mental stability is being questioned publicly, nothing she says will be credible to anyone ever again. So the gimmick has worked for him, he wants us to believe that she cried 'wolf'...and when she starts to really cry "help" again, no one will listen to her. That's a great dilemma.
So my suggestion is thus, they should take her abroad, and whatever the oyinbos say is what we should believe, cos he cannot bribe those ones. Otherwise there is fire on the freaking mountain.
Gud one there mrs Zulu.pJ
DeleteI tink ders more to dis. She was d 1 dat cried out 4 help. I tink she knws smtin dat is supsd to b a secret. I hope she dsnt get kileed eventually. I feel dis is a plot to silence her. Her insanity knws hw to cry out 4 help,ders more to this. She wants to be away from where she is.
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