AFTER spending 140 days abroad, Enugu State Governor, Mr. Sullivan Chime, quietly returned to Nigeria in the early hours of yesterday.
Although no official statement was issued by the state government on the return of the governor, Vanguard learnt that he arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from United Kingdom at about 5.30am via British Airways and was driven toTranscorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja at 6.45am.
To avoid political associates, aides, friends and relations, who besieged the Asokoro Enugu Governor’s Lodge, it was gathered that the governor elected to lodge in one of the Presidential suites in Hilton.
A source told Vanguard that the governor will leave the hotel for Enugu today to join the people of the state. Earlier in the day, there were speculations that Chime would brief journalists at the Asokoro lodge only for journalists to rush there and discovered that there was nobody to address them.
Officials of the government, including media aides to the governor, kept sealed lips on Chime’s unceremonious return.
“Oga returned from United Kingdom at 5.30 am this morning and was driven into Abuja where he is convalescing. He will likely come into Enugu today (Friday) or Saturday,” one of his personal aides who pleaded anonymity, told Vanguard.
Enugu Local Council chairmen, who planned to hold a resounding reception for the governor at Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu yesterday when they heard that he would make a triumphant entry into the Coal City after a long absence from the state, had to call off the event.
Welcome relief in Enugu
Enugu residents received the news of Chime’s return to the country with a welcome relief and thanksgiving to God for sparing the governor’s life.
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