AL-MAKURA CRIES OUT TO JONATHAN- SAVE ME FROM IMPEACHMENT: Governor u Tanko UmarAl-makura, who has been served an impeachment notice by the Nasarawa state House of Assembly for his impeachment has cried sorrowfully to Jonathan to intervene in order to avert his impeachment. The Assembly is dominated by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had issued an impeachment notice to the governor. Knowing the consequences of such threat as it happened to his counterpart in Adamawa state, he is very quick to shelve pride like his counterpart in Rivers state who said he will sink deep down with the leaking ship of APC. We learnt from a source who pleaded not to be named that Al-Makura hurriedly left for Abuja to plead with the president to intervene on this impeachment threat hanging on his neck. We also learnt that before Al-Makura left the state capital on Tuesday, he held series of meetings with his aides and party officials’ intent upon seeing how the impeachment impasse can be surmounted. The lawmakers also accused the governor of sponsoring hoodlums to disrupt law and order in the state, alleging that Al-Makura paid N1 million each to the restless youths in each local government to create crisis. Ibaku however, said the assembly members were united in impeaching the governor, adding that all the 16 allegations against the governor were backed-up with sufficient proofs. He said 20 out of the 24 state lawmakers had already signed the impeachment notice and would not renege on it. “We have equipped with allegations and proofs, our vehicle is overloaded and we are united. This explains why nobody was aware of the impeachment notice until it was signed and issued,” he said. Ibaku said the allegations against the governor border on financial misappropriation, spending of unbudgeted funds and gross misconduct which could only be explained by assembly members. “How can a governor spend funds that were not budgeted for and expect us to keep quiet, it is our job to ask questions on where he gets the money. We will serve him the impeachment notice, if he refused to respond to it, we shall direct the Chief Judge of the state to set-up a committee and if he refused to appear before the committee like the ex-Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, he will also become an ex-governor soon,” he said. Ibaku stated further: “We did this singlehandedly, we are not being sponsored, if we were being sponsored, you would have seen police around us. We issued the notice without the presence of a single security personnel,” he added.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:14:09 +0000
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