• No Going Back, Say Lawmakers

CLOSE associates of Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, Saturday, confirmed to The
Guardian that the governor has hurriedly put
together a seven-man team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to defend him at the investigative panel set up by the state’s Chief Judge, Umaru Dikko, to probe allegations of fraud and gross misconduct against him.

The plot to remove the governor thickened last night, with the state house of assembly members insisting that they would take the matter to a ‘successful conclusion.”

Before the panel on Al-Makura was set up on
Friday, the special adviser to the governor on public affairs, Abdulhamid Kwara, who addressed a press conference in Lafia on Tuesday, said the governor was putting everything together to appear before the panel at the appropriate time to exonerate himself.
The panel is scheduled to commence sitting
on Wednesday after the Eid-e-Fitri celebrations.
But when The Guardian called yesterday to
ascertain whether, or not, the governor would
make good his promise, Kwara neither picked the phone calls nor replied the text message sent to him to that effect.

It was, however, gathered that the governor had, Friday morning, assembled a team of senior lawyers to stand in for him at the
panel.

A top government source said the team
comprises seven senior advocates of Nigeria. In the wake of the impeachment process against his friend, a former deputy governor of the state and professor of Law, Onje Gyewadu, had asked the governor to toe the path of resignation, which he said would be more honourable.

Speaking with newsmen on the development,
professor Gyewadu noted that Al-Makura’s travails are as a result of bad leadership, even as he insisted that the impeachment process was a right step in the right direction.

“The law makers are the true representatives of the people and whatever they do is in the collective interest of all and sundry,” he said.

While the state chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and its chieftains have kept mum since the impeachment saga erupted, estranged political cohorts of the governor have continued to pour encomiums on the decision of the lawmakers.

A former magistrate and legal adviser to Ombatse, a cultural group, Zamani Zacharia Alumaga, said he has been vindicated.

“I kept telling people that we came all out in 2011 because the oracle we went to said Al-Makura will win; and, today, that is history,
the same oracle told us again that the governor will not exceed 2015 and the governor himself is aware of this.

True to it, this too shall come to pass.”

Contrary to speculations that the embattled
governor may have gotten some reprieve.


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ok. Lets wait, watch and see.

demand1982: While the state chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and its chieftains have kept mum
since the impeachment saga erupted, estranged
political cohorts of the governor have continued to
pour encomiums on the decision of the lawmakers.

Where is Tinubu, Buhari, and Lie Mohammad?. I feel pity for this Governor..

A lot can be done unde that head ' gross misconduct'

As long as due process is followed

visasubagent: A lot can be done unde that head ' gross misconduct'

it is not even defined in the constitution

visasubagent: A lot can be done unde that head ' gross misconduct'

it is not even defined in the constitution and so open abuse

Al'Makura has failed the millions who trooped out to vote out old man Akwe Doma of PDP in 2011. Most Nassarwa indegines thought that by electing a younger man they'd finally get a taste of good governenance which the people have never experienced since 1999, but they thought wrongly, little wonder his fellow APC strong men in the state have done nothing to help him. Nobody wants to be seen supporting a man that has failed his people. I hate PDP and completely detaste the way they victimize members of the opposition but in this case I stand for the truth; Almakura should face the music. I wish state houses of assembly across the federation can commence impeachment moves on all the non performing governors (PDP and APC) in Nigeria.

These ar the funny side of power and money.
Oyibo pipu should come and learn democray from us.

almakura and the 7 thieves

demand1982: it is not even defined in the constitution

It is defined, just that it was made too wide by including ' anything amounting to their view as gross misconduct'

Makes very little difference as it doesn't operate as a trial court