Impeachment Notice: Nyako, Deputy Ought To Have Been Impeached Since 2008 – Ardo

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Dr Umar Ardo has urged the state House of Assembly not to disappoint the people of the state in its fresh bid to impeach the state governor, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, saying they ought to have been removed from office since July 2008 when the first impeachment notice was served the governor. Ardo, who said the Nyako/Ngilari administration must be ousted because it destroyed Adamawa State, lamented that for the over seven years that Nyako ruled Adamawa, the state has been brought to its knees economically, politically, infrastructurally and security wise. He said, “The Nyako administration has exacerbated social and political tensions in the state through its deliberate policies of creating ethnic and religious distrusts and conflicts amongst the different groups in the state. The regime also has entrenched the culture of impunity, unconstitutionality, lawlessness, corruption, nepotism, favouritism, discrimination, and self-service in governance. “It is killing patriotism and sense of community in our society. No people of good standing should tolerate such a leadership for a day, if they can help it. “I support their impeachment because they ought not to have even been in their offices as far back as July 2008 when the first impeachment notice was served the governor”. Accordingly, Ardo called on all patriotic people in the state to support the lawmakers in the move to remove the governor and his deputy, even as he noted that “the impeachment move has no religious or ethnic coloration; it is for the sake of the future of all Adamawa indigenes and that of our children”. Urging the people not to let anyone tell them otherwise, Ardo recalled that the reason why he opposed the party’s directives that all PDP governors be returned unopposed in 2011, including Nyako in return for their support for the president was because of his “conviction that as far as Adamawa State was concerned, this was a wrong decision”. “I argued then that the party should treat candidates on their individual merits and states on their peculiarities; that Nyako was no good to the party and will turn out to be a liability both to the state and the party. I made these points in several party fora including one before the party stakeholders where the President, the Vice President, the party National Chairman, NWC Members, Nyako himself, etc., were all present”, he added. The PDP chieftain regretted, however, that the powers that be then shelved his contention aside and went ahead and threw their support behind the Nyako/Ngilari ticket. He contnued: “Thank God today I am thoroughly vindicated. Consequently, the present move of removing the Governor and his deputy is the surest and cleanest way to resolve the political problem in the state. Besides, they were never even lawfully nominated by the party. “Once they are removed now, the Speaker takes over as Acting Governor and elections be conducted within 3 months. That would put Adamawa on a clean slate; perhaps we maybe able to rise again. I therefore call on the Hon. Members to conclude the process methodically and not relapse again and disappoint our people as the Hon. James Barka-led House did in 2008”.