Hopes for a truce between the Adamawa State House of
Assembly and Governor Murtala Nyako, dimmed on Saturday following the
insistence of Adamawa Peoples Democratic Party’s stakeholders on the governor’s
removal.
The small but powerful group, which comprises leaders and
elders of the state chapter of the party, has insisted that nothing short of
Nyako leaving office will be acceptable.
The Special Adviser to the Adamawa State Governor, Mr.
Phineas Elisha, confirmed this in an interview with journalists in Yola on
Saturday.
He said all the efforts to resolve the crises were being
truncated by the PDP stakeholders, who were bent on removing Governor Murtala
Nyako, through illegalities.
Elisha explained that the desperation showed by the group
was such that they had issued open threats to PDP legislators in the House to
ensure that the impeachment sails through or risk sanctions.
He said “The whole impeachment move is being staged-managed
by the so-called Adamawa PDP stakeholders who are trying to draw President
Goodluck Jonathan into a thing he knew nothing of.”
According to him, the governor is not deterred as he has
embarked on another peace mission to Abuja where he plans to meet with his
accusers to resolve the stalemate for peace to reign in Abuja.
Meanwhile, the fate of the embattled Governor of Adamawa
State, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngilari, now hangs in the balance.
This followed Saturday’s announcement by Buba Kaigama the
Chairman of the investigative panel set up by the immediate past acting Chief
Judge of the state, Justice Ambrose Mamedi, that the panel had concluded its
public sitting.
According to the panel chairman, the panel decided to end
its public sitting due to the non appearance of the respondents or their
counsels even after they were served with notices of invitation.
Kaigama said “The panel will study the evidence submitted by
the complainants” pledging to give fair hearing and justice to both the
complainants and the respondents.
Earlier, one of the counsels to the complainants (Adamawa
State House of Assembly), Mr. Leonard Zadon, tendered 23 exhibits including a
video clip of the House of Assembly proceedings probing some commissioners over
budget expenditures.
He urged the panel to uphold the submission so as to do
justice to the people of Adamawa State.
Meanwhile, The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Gov.
Murtala Nyako of Adamawa said on Saturday that he had forgiven all those
planning to impeach him.
Nyako said this while addressing his supporters who paid him
a solidarity visit at his residence in Yola.
The governor appealed to his supporters and all well-meaning
citizens of the state to remain calm and pray to God to protect them from
falling along ethnic and religious lines.
He described those behind his planned impeachment as the
enemy of peace and the people of the state.
Nyako said that legitimate sons and daughters of the state
would never cause hardship to their brothers and sisters.
“Despite the unwarranted state of emergency enforced on the
people of the state coupled with the dust-to-down-curfew, some irresponsible
elements based in Abuja are trying to create additional hardship for the
people,” he said.
In her remarks, the Adamawa Women Leader, Ms. Hauwa Abba,
stated that women and youths in the state were in the Governor’s residence to
register their support and solidarity to him.
She disclosed that over 10,000 women and youths benefited
from Nyako’s economic empowerment programmes in the state.
Punch.
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