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<\/p>\nClara, made the allegation while being cross-examined by the counsel for the former governor, Paul Onyia, in the petition filed by Chime for the dissolution of their 11-year-old marriage.<\/p>\n
Clara informed the court that she met her husband while he was Enugu State governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI bought two vehicles. A Lexus 570 SUV and a BMW S6 for myself while married to the former governor.<\/p>\n
\u201dI did not use his money to buy those vehicles from the allowances I received as the wife of the governor,\u201d NAN quoted her as saying.<\/p>\n
The former governor\u2019s wife also informed the court that she bought her landed property from the Enugu State Housing Corporation, adding that she paid for it after leaving office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the title documents of the landed property,\u201d she told the court.<\/p>\n
Asked if she was aware that the petitioner ceased to be governor since 2015, Clara said, \u201cI am aware that he ceased to be Enugu State governor on May 29, 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n
She, however, disclosed that she did not know how much the former governor earned as pension, saying, \u201cI have no idea of how much he is being paid as pension.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former governor\u2019s wife also informed the court that she was involved in oil and gas business, adding that she had been living well despite not receiving maintenance allowance from her husband since 2013 they had been living apart.<\/p>\n
She also alleged that her estranged husband has refused to allow her see her only child.<\/p>\n
\u201dI only see my child during Church service or social events whenever I am in town,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
After listening to her testimony, Justice Angela Otaluka, adjourned the case until Oct. 14 for adoption of final written addresses.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The estranged wife of former governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, Clara, on Monday told an FCT High Court Apo, that she left her matrimonial home for fear of her life. Clara, made the allegation while being cross-examined by the counsel for the former governor, Paul Onyia, in the petition filed by Chime for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[703,10299],"class_list":["post-125358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-enugu","tag-sullivan-chime"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}