There’s no madness in our family – Chime’s in-laws

Governor Sullivan Chime's in-laws,
including the mother in-law, Madam
Patience Igwe, on Tuesday said there
was no history of madness in their
family
Madam Igwe told our correspondent on
the phone that no member of the family
had a history of mental illness.
"My daughter, Clara, is very okay and
sound and her husband, the governor of
Enugu State, is also doing well. Please
leave us alone and don't call me again
on this matter," she said.
Governor Chime recently disclosed that
his wife had mental illness based on
which he had restricted her movement
to the Government House.
Clara however left the Government
House at the weekend, vowing never to
return to her husband.
At the Amauda Isuochi village in
Umunneochi Local Government Area of
Abia State, where Mrs Clara Chime
hailed from, a male cousin to the
governor's estranged wife corroborated
Madam Igwe's stand, asking, "Do I look
like someone who is mad?"
The cousin, who was spotting a pair of
blue jean trousers, refused to disclose
his identity and prevented other
members of the family from speaking to
our correspondent.
"Do the people you are seeing here look
like mad people, or have you seen any
mad person since you came in?," he
asked our correspondent.
He said, "Please, we don't have any mad
person here and nobody in our family
has ever been mad. So, I don't know
where Enugu people got the story that
our sister is mad."
When asked, the security man at the
Igwe's compound, Dauda William, said
he was yet to notice any insane person
in the family.
"Since I resumed work at the premises
over four months ago, the people I have
been seeing around are very normal and
well," said William, an indigene of
Nasarawa State.