Impeachment: Seven SANs to defend Al-Makura Seven Senior Advocates of Nigeria will defend the embattled Nasarawa State Governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, when the panel set up by the state Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko, begins sitting this week. The PUNCH’s investigations in Lafia, the state capital, showed that the seven-man team of SANs, arrived in Lafia, the state capital on Sunday. It was gathered that the SANs drove straight to the Government House, where they met on how to defend the governor at the panel. Acting on the directive of the state House of Assembly, the chief judge had on Friday set up the seven-man panel to probe the governor on the allegation of gross misconduct and abuse of office. A top government official, who pleaded anonymity, confided in The PUNCH that the governor had hurriedly put together the seven-man team of SANs, to represent him at the investigative panel. The lawmakers had last week vowed to go ahead with the impeachment move against Al-Makura, despite the intervention of traditional rulers in the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Affairs, Abdulhamid Kwarra, who addressed a press conference in Lafia on Tuesday, stated that the governor was putting everything together to appear before the panel at the appropriate time to defend himself. When contacted on the telephone on Sunday to ascertain whether or not, the governor would make good his promise to appear before the panel, Kwarra did not pick his calls. But in an SMS to our correspondent, Kwarra asked, “ Haba, do you expect anything short of that?” Meanwhile, a former Deputy Governor of the state and a professor of law, Onje Gyewadu, has asked the governor to resign. This, he said, would be more honourable than being impeached.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:53:09 +0000
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