My ordeal in the hands of Gov. Chime – Wife

Enugu State First Lady, Clara Chime, has said that she was long fed up with the marriage with Governor Sullivan Chime but was forced to carry the cross for a long while.

She said that she would have walked away from the marriage during the period Chime was sick and away for five months, but remained on 'very compassionate grounds.'

According NEW MAIL-NG.COM,  Clara spoke shortly after she was sent packing from Government House her husband on Monday.

The eviction of the Clara is the climax of the controversy surrounding the outcry over her alleged confinement to a room in the Enugu State Government House by her husband.

Clara said she thought that sickness would change the governor's ways towards her, but she was disappointed to see him get worse  months after his return from undergoing a cancer treatment abroad.

According to her, on many occasions she attempted to leave, her family members, for some flimsy reasons, insisted she stayed put.

She said even when it was apparent that Chime no longer wanted the marriage, her family wouldn't let her go.

Clara made this disclosure through the mobile telephone set of one of her male siblings, about four hours after she eventually packed out from the Governors Lodge.

The sibling declined revealing his identity to NEWMAIL-NG.COM correspondent, but stated that he was one of the few family members who supported her agitation to quit the marriage.

He said if he revealed his identity, it could cause a stir between him and other family members, who were still holding meetings with members of the Chime family on the matter.

He claimed that the governor had long lost interest in the marriage but held forth because he (Chime) didn't want any scandal over the issue.

'So, there was no need joining other family members into forcing her to remain in a marriage that he (the governor) was no longer interested in,' said the source.