Eight
out twenty-four members of the Tarba State House of Assembly have dissociated
themselves from the verdict of the Peoples Democratic Party committee on Taraba
state crisis.
They
said that the Senator Hope Uzodinma decision on Tabara crisis is setting a
dangerous trend capable of causing crisis in the state.
Addressing
journalists in Jalingo Wednesday evening, eight members of the state House of
Assembly, led by the Majority Leader, Mr Joseph Albasu Kunini, said the
committee went beyond its mandate by pronouncing a decision instead of relating
its findings to the leadership of the party that sent them.
He
added, “It is obvious that the Uzodinma-led fact-finding committe was not
interested in deep-seated solutions, but an arrangement that is capable of
leading to breakdown of law and order.”
He
said that what the panel meant was that there should be two governors in a
state, which is an aberration and an invitation to anarchy, adding that the
panel created more problem than it came to solve.
The
majority leader said that the committee had no business being in the state in
the first instance because a court order had restrained it from interfering in
the Taraba crisis since it was purely a constitutional matter.
According
to him, “I was part of the meeting, but I went in there as an observer because
nobody invited me and I want to say that what Senator Hope Uzodinma came out to
tell journalists after the meeting was not the decision arrived at the meeting.
“We
are miffed by Senator Hope Uzodinma’s dubious misadventure and his cocktail of
contradictions which he clearly displayed on Tuesday at the end of the visit of
the PDP fact-finding committee to the state.”
The
lawmakers added that what the committee had done was to satisfy the yearning of
the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who had not hidden his agenda
and his position on the Taraba crisis.
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