Enugu is on the rocks right now as sources are
saying Governor Sullivan Chime has told the deputy
governor of Enugu State, Chief Sunday Onyebuchi, to
forward in his resignation letter.
According to Vanguard, the deputy’s wrong-doing is
his choice to contest Enugu East senatorial election
come 2015 against the governor’s choice, Chief of
Staff, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo.
The issue has escalated to the point where the house
has been mandated to gather the necessary amount
of signatures to impeach Onyebuchi.
Sources say that 20 of the 24 lawmakers have
already put down their signatures after being
summoned to a meeting convened by Governor
Chime at the Government house where he told them
of the plan.
A government house staff said : “The lawmakers just
rose from their meeting held at the Governor’s Lodge
and I can tell you that the two-third majority needed
to remove the Deputy Governor has been obtained
and the impeachment notice has been signed. ”
Information Committee of the State Assembly
Chairman and House Leader, Mr. SKC Udeokoye, was
not available last night to confirm these reports as
they failed to answer their phones.
Another source told Vanguard that the plot has
already intensified and the lawmakers are already set
to start the process this week.
Reports coming in states that the problem between
the governor and his deputy began last year
February, when Chime after being sick for over four
months, had to medical issues. His deputy had called
him and asked him to resign his position
immediately.
The source revealed: “There was an encounter
between the governor and the deputy last Wednesday
where they reportedly disagreed over the contest for
the Enugu East senatorial election and other
contentious issues between two of them. This
incident was said to have been witnessed by the
governor’s Special Adviser on Inter-governmental
Affair, Rita Mba.”
Then the governor started to list out the sins of
Onyebuchi, which included refusing to represent him
at the last meeting of South East Governors’ Forum
despite being informed by the Chief of Protocol.
Onyebuchi immediately debunked that he had
willingly denied attending the mentioned event and
said that Chime failed to tell him personally to show
up and refused to take orders from a junior officer.
The source continued: “The governor also frowned
against the deputy governor’s suggestion to remove
from office the Chief of Staff, Mrs. Ifeoma Nwobodo,
during his absence last year, a development that
forced him to return to the country, even when the
doctors did not give him clearance to return to
Nigeria at the time. “He also frowned against the
deputy’s refusal to heed his earlier advice not to
venture into the Enugu East senatorial race, accusing
him of associating with the opponents of his
government.”
Onyebuchi feels he is being kicked out for his
senatorial ambition, despite his loyalty to the
governor since the past seven years and he said this
to the governor during their confrontation.
Then Chime lost it and in a rage of anger told the
deputy to exit the Government House, or he will call
his security men on him. Seeing that the issue was
already getting off control, Onyebuchi left the office.
Onyebuchi is reportedly aware of the impeachment
process as he has been told by the PDP Chairman,
who encouraged him to save face and pull the plug
on his position as the deputy governor, but he
rejected the idea even as his security entourage is
being pulled out under his legs by Chime’s orders.
This is not the first time Governor Chime and his
deputy are in loggerheads, Chime had earlier
destroyed Onyebuchi’s poultry farm, where he had
stored over 3,000 birds.
In that case Onyebuchi cried foul and compared the
governor to a power drunk official, who only does
what he wants and his judgement is influenced by
anger and not reasoning.

So this man don survive?
Where is the new wife-prisoner?