Another crisis is imminent in Taraba State as plan to fly Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai again overseas for further medical treatment is suffering a serious setback. His travelling passport has been reportedly seized by two of his top associates. Our correspondent also gathered that the aides had also refused to release the travelling document. The decision not to release the passport, it was learnt, was as a result of a plan to impeach the ailing governor and the Acting Governor Garba Umar to pave the way for the Speaker of the State Assembly to preside over the conduct of the 2015 election. Reports indicated that the wife of the governor had consented to further medical treatment for her husband but the associates, said to be a top lawyer and a retired Army General, were said to have seized the passport despite repeated request of the family. The development is said to have created a split between the family of the governor and his associates who are quoted as telling the family that further treatment abroad would undermine the larger political agenda being pursued by the governor’s group. The non-availability of the passport has also stalled the out-of-court settlement entered into in a case against the state Assembly by the ailing governor. The same forces, which confiscated the passport are also said to have ordered that the family should not negotiate power transfer with the acting governor. It was gathered that the said associates, angered by the warm relationship between the governor’s family and the acting governor, were now plotting an impeachment bid against Suntai and Umar. Insider sources revealed that the plan is to enthrone the Speaker as an interim governor allegedly to ensure plan to install a governor from the southern zone of the state in 2015. Efforts to get the aides of the governor for comments proved abortive. The immediate past Commissioner for Information, Emmanuel Bello, said he was outside the country. Meanwhile, the Taraba Transition Assembly has berated Senator Emmanuel Bwacha for declaring his gubernatorial ambition at a time there are challenges on how to secure further treatment for Suntai, his close friend. In a statement at the weekend by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Samuel Gindi, the group said: “The action of the senator confirmed our consistent affirmation that those who smuggled the governor into the country before he could complete his medical treatment did so for their own selfish political agenda. “By declaring his ambition vindicates our repeated statements that Bwacha and others are using Suntai as a tool in their ambition to rule the state in 2015. “The senator was not contented in mentioning his ambition but he also mentioned four others including a serving federal permanent secretary as interested in the governorship. “If truly Bwacha loved Suntai, his preoccupation should be how to get the governor to receive further medical help. Rather he has succeeded in exposing himself and members of the cabal whose only goal is 2015 and not the treatment and full recuperation of Governor Suntai,” the statement said. “Now that Bwacha has exposed himself, we call on the family of the governor to assert itself and secure necessary treatment for the governor. Those who love Suntai must step in now as the cabal has clearly unmasked and advertised its selfish agenda.”
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:45:48 +0000
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