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SULLIVAN CHIME: DEAD OR ALIVE?

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Grant Governor Sullivan Chime Quick Recovery By Nwaorgu Faustinus Governor Sullivan Chime assumed the mantle of leadership as the Chief Executive officer of the Coal City State for the first time in 2007. This was after he served as the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General   of State where he used his position at the time to make far-reaching and positive contributions that have direct impact on the well-being of the residents. His predecessor, Chimaraoke Nnamami the then governor of Enugu State having seen salient leadership qualities in him (Sullivan Chime) opted to have Mr Chime succeed him. And it came to pass, as 2007 saw Mr Sullivan Chime emerged as the winner of the governorship election. Ever since then, Mr Chime has not left any one in doubt, be it Tom, Dick or Harry of his mission, vision, resolve as well as his determination to transform Enugu State far better than he met it for posterity to pass its judgement on his tenures as the governor of the st

GEJ vs OBJ: Genesis of their Problems

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It is no longer news. The relationship between former president Olusegun Obasanjo, and his political godson, the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan has finally hit the rocks. The “father” and “son” bond that had held the two political players together in the last few years had reached a breaking point.  It hit an all time low recently and finally snapped with the godfather’s open and scathing criticism of President Jonathan’s administration and leadership style. That an acrimonious epilogue would eventually signal a denouement of a pact fated to end in tragedy  is  nothing unusual; in politics, especially in our country, coalitions and friendship among politicians are not always scripted to your storybook, fairytale, happy ever-after ending. This democracy is replete with tales of political alliances that have gone sour as soon as they began. The saying that in politics “no permanent friends or enemies but permanent interests” can best describe the cat and mouse