Planned Impeachment Against Al-Makura, Nasarawa PDP Says It Has No Hand In It

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The Peoples Democratic Part in Nasarawa State has dissociated itself from the current impeachment plans against Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, the state Chairman of the Party Yunana Illiya, debunked the allegations by the All Progressives Congress, APC, that the party and the presidency was behind the impeachment plot against the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura.
The chairman who spoke with reporters yesterday in Lafia the Nasarawa State Capital said; “It is unfortunate that people are bringing sentiments into (the impeachment issue). What (the lawmakers) have done is their constitutional right, to probe the happenings in the state, and if there are areas where they have discovered irregularities, they have the right to inform the governor of these grey areas and ask him to clear himself,” Mr. Illiya said.

Speaking further he said; “If the allegation against him is proven wrong, he will continue in his office as the governor of Nasarawa State. But for somebody to say that the (Presidential) Villa or the PDP at the national level is responsible for this, I think they are being economical with the truth.”
Illiya also said that; “We are all aware of what happened between 2005 to 2006 – the then President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration – when there were cases like this, where the Plateau State governor was impeached; that was between PDP and PDP. (The same) happened in Bayelsa. It depends on the level of violation that we are working with. If some other state assemblies are rubber stamps of their executive, Nasarawa State assembly is not a rubber stamp. Even in an assessment that was carried out between 2012 and 2013 of state legislatures, Nasarawa State was ranked among the best state assembly in the country. They have been able to pass bills and motions well ahead of other states. So, for people to judge the assembly, saying it is doing this because the governor is from APC – that is very far from (the truth). My dad used to say, “This too shall pass.”

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