A heavy cloak of mourning falls on the Nigeria once more today as news of Governor Sullivan Chime’s death filters in. Shortly after the death of Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State was announced. It was said in a rumor going around that he gave up the ghost in India. The late Governor, His Excellency Sullivan Chime was said to have been battling with an undisclosed illness for some months now. And when citizens of the State began questioning his prolonged absence from Enugu, the officials gave a story that he was on a long vacation accrued over some period of years.
Enugu State Governor, Sullivan Chime, was feared dead on Saturday.
Unconfirmed reports had it that Chime passed on at an Indian hospital after battling an undisclosed ailment for some months.
Meanwhile, The PUNCH Newspaper's Enugu State correspondent, Ozioma Ubabukoh, was harassed by seven men who claimed to be security agents in front of his apartment in Enugu around 11.45pm on Saturday.
The men seized Ubabukoh’s phone and his laptop in order to stop him from sending stories to the head office.
As at press time, the men were still in Ubabukoh’s apartment and insisted that they were not leaving until 3am.
Efforts to get across to some commissioners in the state were not successful as their phones were switched off.