As Enugu State Governor Sulivan Chime Battles With Stroke In A Hospital In India,There's Anxiety Over His Absence In The State Now.

Fifty days after Governor Sullivan Chime began his annual vacation, anxiety is mounting in Enugu State over his whereabouts.
Many residents of the coal city who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, at the weekend, expressed worries that the governor was over-staying his welcome abroad, but his aides and party chieftains said there was no cause for alarm.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Chuks Ugwoke, said the governor took his accumulated vacation as he had not taken his annual leave since he became governor in 2007.
Ugwoke explained that the governor handed over to his deputy, Mr Sunday Onyebuchi, who was fully in charge of the state’s administration.
“Activities have been on. There is no activity of government that slowed down because you realise that there is an acting governor who is fully in-charge.
“Work is in progress at the new secretariat and on some ongoing road projects. So also with the rural development, where some communities are being connected to the national grid,” he said.
The commissioner said the governor would return as soon as his vacation was over, pointing out that he had not exceeded the duration of his vacation.
In his own reaction, the Chairman of ACN in the state, Mr Emeka Udeh, said the prolonged absence of the governor was unhealthy for governance.
Udeh said the governor was entitled to his vacation but that where it became too long, the people also had the right to be worried.
“It is not healthy for the state. I don’t know if the deputy governor has all the executive powers in his acting capacity. But what I want is that the state must be working,” he said.
On his part, the Chairman of PDP in the state, Chief Vita Abba, said there was nothing unusual about the governor’s absence.But from a reliable source,the Governor is in a hospital in New Delhi.