Nyako, Deputy To Face Probe Panel Today

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investigative panel set up to investigate the allegation of gross misconduct leveled against Adamawa State Governor, Murtala H Nyako and his Deputy, Bala James Ngilari by the House of Assembly has proceeded with the conduct of its work, unruffled by developments in Abuja.
The proceedings were brief and saw to the dispatch of three invitation letters to all the parties involved. The parties are Nyako, Ngilari and the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
The panel ordered that since Governor Nyako was not in town and the Government House remained sealed, the governor’s invitation letter be pasted on the Government House gate which has since been done.
Deputy Governor Bala James Ngilari was served in his office and the letter was received by the office secretary. The Assembly clerk has also received the House’s letter of invitation.
The invitation ordered the governor, the deputy governor and the State House of Assembly to appear before it at the venue of the proceeding which is the Usman Iya Medical and Health Workers of Nigeria House located on Gibson Jalo way, Army Barracks Road, Jimeta, Yola.
By the invitation, the panel has directed that all the parties involved appear by 2:00 pm.
Meanwhile, Security operatives at the residence of Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, last Wednesday prevented a member of the panel from delivering the invitation letter.
The panel secretary, Binanu R. Esthon, told newsmen that when all attempts to deliver the letter to Nyako failed, the panel members met and directed that the letter should be pasted on his gate.
“If you go to the governor’s house now you will see the invitation letter pasted on his gate, the deputy governor’s secretary received the letter on behalf of his boss”, he stated.
Esthon said that the panel would commence full sitting today since the governor and his deputy had been served with their letters of invitation.
However, Nyako has expressed confidence that he would survive the ongoing impeachment move against him, insisting that he won’t resign.
Nyako’s political trauma got worsened last week when the High Court sitting in Yola presided over by the Acting Chief Judge, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, dismissed his application, asking it to stop the lawmakers from continuing with the impeachment process.
All the 25 members of the Adamawa House of Assembly are in the PDP, but five of them did not sign the impeachment notice.
In his ruling, Mammadi said that Nyako’s application lacked constitutional backing, pointing out that the Assembly members fully complied with all the sections under Section 188 of the 1999 constitution as amended.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the launch of the Presidential Safe School Initiative aimed at providing conducive and safe environment for school children in the North East, Nyako remained upbeat about his chances of surviving the ongoing impeachment proceedings against him.
His appearance at the Presidential Villa was the second in two days since the battle to remove him began. He had also attended the Council of State meeting chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan in the Villa last Tuesday.
Nyako, who claimed that the state was calm, noted that since the issue was before the court, he expected the lawmakers to obey the rules in anything they do.
He said, “Well, it is in the court and the court said it was not well done. We are hoping that if they want to do it, they will do it following the normal process in whatever they want to do.”