The fate of
the embattled Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako and his deputy, Bala
Ngilari, now hangs in the balance.
This followed
Saturday’s announcement by Buba Kaigama the Chairman of the investigative panel
set up by the immediate past acting Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ambrose
Mamedi, that the panel had concluded its public sitting.
According to
the panel chairman, the panel decided to end its public sitting due to the non
appearance of the respondents or their counsels even after they were served
with notices of invitation.
Kaigama said
“The panel will study the evidence submitted by the complainants” pledging to
give fair hearing and justice to both the complainants and the respondents.
Earlier, one
of the counsels to the complainants (Adamawa State House of Assembly), Mr.
Leonard Zadon, tendered 23 exhibits including a video clip of the House of
Assembly proceedings probing some commissioners over budget expenditures.
He urged the
panel to uphold the submission so as to do justice to the people of Adamawa
State.
Meanwhile,
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa
said on Saturday that he had forgiven all those planning to impeach him.
Nyako said
this while addressing his supporters who paid him a solidarity visit at his
residence in Yola.
The governor
appealed to his supporters and all well-meaning citizens of the state to remain
calm and pray to God to protect them from falling along ethnic and religious
lines.
He described
those behind his planned impeachment as the enemy of peace and the people of
the state.
Nyako said that
legitimate sons and daughters of the state would never cause hardship to their
brothers and sisters.
“Despite the
unwarranted state of emergency enforced on the people of the state coupled with
the dust-to-down-curfew, some irresponsible elements based in Abuja are trying
to create additional hardship for the people,” he said.
In her
remarks, the Adamawa Women Leader, Ms. Hauwa Abba, stated that women and youths
in the state were in the Governor’s residence to register their support and
solidarity to him.
She disclosed
that over 10,000 women and youths benefited from Nyako’s economic empowerment
programmes in the state.