Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has promised to continue to protect the integrity of his wife, Clara, in spite of campaigns against him.
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Speaking with newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday, Chime said it had become imperative for him to clarify issues about his wife's health challenges going by the campaign of calumny against his person.
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"Well, my wife has some medical challenges and it would be very unkind for me to talk about her condition on the pages of newspapers," the governor said.
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"I have done everything to protect her integrity and I am not now going to expose her to ridicule because some people want to exploit her situation to drag me into a needless war of words.
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"We've been battling this prior to my inauguration in 2011. It was so bad at a time that she had to be taken out of here (Governor's Lodge) for treatment.