Chairman of Enugu State Christian Pilgrim Board and Bishop of the Enugu Anglican Communion, Emmanuel Chukwuma, in an interview with Sun Newspapers says he is not happy with the way the family of the Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime, has been handling issues, relating to the present state of the governor’s health. In his view, the governor’s immediate family should be blamed for the present call for the application of the Doctrine of Necessity in the state. This came as a result of Sullivan's family inability, to tell the whereabouts of the Governor.
On the other hand,
The acting Governor of Taraba State , Alhaji Garba Umar , is reportedly under pressure “to dissolve the State Executive council (SEC) and appoint new members that would have the courage to declare Suntai medically unfit to remain as governor”. It is further being speculated that the acting governor, being a greenhorn in governance, was being side-tracked by the governor’s aides. And with Suntai in Germany, it is feared by Umar’s friends that the situation may well remain the same till May 2015, when the ticket of the political duo will expire.
Failure to assure transparency on the health situation of the governor is therefore creating unnecessary and avoidable distractions, as well as ill-feeling in the State. That should not be so. Although the State Assembly was alert to its responsibility in declaring Umar Acting Governor after the third week of the incumbent’s absence in keeping with the constitutional amendment, it needs to exercise its oversight responsibility to ascertain the true situation of things as far as the governor’s health is concerned.
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