Sullivan Chime disgraces Ifeoma Nwobodo:

Reason: her attempt to walk on both sides of the road ..

“Get ye behind me Satan!” Chime has shoved away the tigress that helped her subdue Enugu State and their politics for almost eight years

These are not the best of times for the woman whom the Newswatch magazine once described as the “goddess of Enugu State.” At that time, she bestrode the entire political, economic and social spheres of Enugu State like a colossus and the people of the state (mighty and ordinary) walked under her.

She called the shots. Contractors got their jobs through her and “appreciated” her handsomely while the commissioners served as supervisors who knew neither when the contracts were awarded nor the terms of the contracts.

Council chairmen got their tickets through her and adored her by giving a large chunks of the monthly allocations of Local Government Areas to her. And the lame duck Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Vita Abba, whose office was merely ceremonial, avoided the risk of asking questions for fear of losing his own seat.

For daring to nurse the ambition to go to the Senate where Ifeoma Nwobodo had her eyes on, former Deputy Governor Sunday

Onyebuchi, was pushed out.

Chime’s second wife, Clara, could not stand it and ran away from the Government House. For failing to recognize her presence at the PDP Unity Rally held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu last year, the Publicity Secretary of the PDP, South East, Ali Odefa, was beaten black and blue by her thugs.

The goddess was indeed so powerful.

But today, the story has changed. She will not go to the Senate, which some months back was a fait accompli. The ticket to run for the Enugu East Senatorial seat was won by Senator Gil Nnaji, whose first term in the senate was marked by his “siddon look” posture, saying nothing and moving no motion.

The last coup de grace to Ifeoma Nwobodo was the withdrawal of all the vehicles attached to her office, which she continued to make use of even after resigning as the Chief of Staff Government House.

Sisi Calabar gathered that her desperation to go to the Senate severed the cord that held her and Governor Chime together.

Realising that Chime had lost out to Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in the power play for the control of the PDP in Enugu State, she made a desperate effort to “cross carpet.”

She paid a visit to Ekweremadu during which she begged to be forgiven for her sins of commission and omission and that she be given the ticket to run for the Senate. She allegedly even promised to donate the same “treasure” with which she held Chime.

Unknown to her, Ekweremadu, who was said to have received her warmly, acted the Holy Spirit who will never forgive. The senator alerted the Chime camp who sent spies to confirm that she visited and they saw her come out with the senator from his house. It dawned on Chime then that his trusted former Chief of Staff was trying to walk on both sides of the road at the same time and wasted no time to disgrace her.