I have not sent my resignation letter to Governor Nyako – Ngilari Confusion enveloped Adamawa State, less than 24 hours after governor Murtala Nyako was impeached by the State House of Assembly, as information emerged that Barrister Bala James Ngillari did not resign his appointment as the deputy governor of the state. Sources close to the deputy governor’s office said the purported resignation letter read on the floor of the House by then speaker Hon. Fintiri, who is now the acting governor of the state, was obtained from Ngilari under duress. The source disclosed to LEADERSHIP that the drama took place when the deputy speaker, now the acting speaker, Kwamoti Laori, went to the deputy governor’s official residence with an army of soldiers and ordered Ngillari to tender his resignation letter as directed from above. The source added that deputy governor had never written any letter to the governor as demanded by the constitution to intimate him (former Governor Murtala Nyako) that he wanted to resign from the office. While confirming the development, the embattled deputy governor said “the truth is that I have not sent any letter of resignation to the governor up till now, because the representative of the House only came to my house yesterday asking me to tender my resignation and asked me to address the letter to the speaker of the House, which I did”. When asked whether he signed the letter under duress or not, Ngillari said what he did was to simply send the resignation to the speaker as requested. The impeached governor, Murtala Nyako, has called for the reinstatement of his deputy as the governor of the state, following his illegal removal. Nyako, who spoke through his press director in a press release made available to journalists in Yola, said: “Our attention has been drawn to the purported resignation of the deputy governor of Adamawa State, Barrister Bala James Ngillari, which was supposedly read on the floor of the State House of Assembly.” While accepting the appointment as SSG, Tukur said the recent happenings in Adamawa was a democratic version of a revolution. “The appointment is a challenge on me. I promise to be fair and equitable in discharging my duty,” Tukur said. Before his appointment,, Tukur was a professor of Geography in the Department of Environmental Sciences , Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:44:25 +0000
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