A High Court sitting in Yola has thrown out an application filed by the
\nAdamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, seeking to restrain the state House
\nof Assembly from commencing impeachment process against him until the
\ndetermination of the substantive suit.<\/p>\n
Justice Ambrose Mamadi, who is the acting Chief Judge of the state, said
\nthis while ruling on the application filed by Kanu Agabi SAN, on behalf of
\nNyako on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mamadi in his ruling argued that the lawmakers did not breach any
\nprovisions of Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution as amended.<\/p>\n
He added that the application was aimed to pre-empt the legislators, who
\nhad 24 hours earlier instructed the acting CJ to constitute a seven-man
\npanel to investigate the 20 charges of gross misconduct levelled against
\nthe governor and another six counts of similar charges brought against the
\ndeputy governor.<\/p>\n
Responding to the ruling counsel for Nyako, Agabi who was represented in
\ncourt by Mr. Ayo Akam, said it did not affect the substantive suit.<\/p>\n
It will be recalled that the state lawmakers had two weeks ago ordered the
\nClerk of the state House of Assembly to serve the impeachment notices on
\nNyako and his deputy.<\/p>\n
When the clerk was finding it difficult to serve them the impeachment
\nnotices, the state House of Assembly did so through the media.<\/p>\n
Nyako, in the eight-page impeachment notice, is accused of mismanagement
\nof public funds.<\/p>\n
However, the Adamawa State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party,
\nTahir Shehu, said, \u201cThe ruling has cleared the coast for the lawmakers to
\ncontinue with their constitutional responsibilities of checkmating the
\nactivities of government officials in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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