Monday 23 June 2014
PDP moves to counter APC’s move to save Nyako
Stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa
State and their counterparts in the All Progressives Congress
(APC) are engaged in last minute maneuvers to sustain their
strategies on the bid to either impeach or save Governor
Murtala Nyako and his deputy Bala Nglari from impeachment.
APC governors met Thursday night to device strategies towards
frustrating the move while legislators from the state also met
separately for the same purpose.
Sources however said former vice President Atiku Abubakar
could not make it to the meeting as he was out of the country.
A source close to him said he was however represented at the
meetings and that he arrived Nigeria last night.
He said reports reaching the former VP indicate that the
impeachment move had more or less collapsed by last night.
But the PDP stalwarts said the impeachment is in top gear and
that as far as they are concerned Atiku does not control a single
legislator in Adamawa.
One of the PDP elders, Dr. Umar Ardo, said the elders are
supporting the impeachment move because the governor and his
deputy ought not even to have been in their offices as far back
as July 2008 when the first impeachment notice was served the
governor.
“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 may be
able to rise again,” he said while calling on the members to
conclude the process methodically and not relapse again and
disappoint the people.
He said the exercise has no religious or ethnic coloration and
that it is for the sake of the future of all Adamawa indigenes.
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