IMPEACHMENT:AL MAKURA'S ASS ON FIRE IN TINUBU'S ABSENCE

IMPEACHMENT:AL MAKURA'S ASS ON FIRE IN TINUBU'S ABSENCE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU

The fate of Governor Umaru Al Makura of Nassarrawa State remains uncertain as at press time

For Governor Umaru Al Makura of Nassarawa State in Nigeria , this are not happy times as the drums of war and possible impeachment by the State House of Assembly in Lafia ,Central Nigeria continues to get louder by the day.

In an exclusive investigations by Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria,it was discovered that the All Progressive Congress National Leader,Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu had been pulling the strings for him to remain in office.

An impeccable source told this reporter how the Chief Justice of Nassarrawa State,Justice Suleiman Dikko was been silenced by Tinubu's largesse

The source speaks "He was asked to name his price and given some thing in the region of what the Chief Justice of Nigeria earns, he also got a certificate of occupancy"

"You know this was how the crisis ended ,PDP controls the state legislature ,APC controls the Judge who will have supervised the entire drama been caused by the Nassarawa state legislature"

"This is what made the lawmakers to change there minds at the last minute ,if only Nyako had done the same thing"

The source also disclosed that there were APC implants who are handsomely paid to search for information from the ruling PDP

MEMBERS of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly are dogged in their pursuit of ensuring that Governor Tanko Almakura is impeached on account of the 16-count allegations against him. Many observers including All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters who thought that the impeachment saga was over with the panel’s dismissal of all the charges and acquitted Almakura.
Not yet Uhuru

However, it is not yet Uhuru for the governor, his followers and APC supporters who have been sending series of congratulatory messages on radio and newspapers to Almakura on what they describe as ‘victory of the rule of law’.
The state lawmakers upon resumption of plenary on Monday declared clearly that the matter is still on the front burner. The latest move started when the Leader of the House, Hon. Godiya Akwashiki, representing Nasarawa Eggon North Constituency, raised a motion on public hearing compelling the speaker to kick-start the fresh motion on the impeachment.
Akwashiki said that the action and motive of the state Chief Judge, Justice Suleiman Dikko in constituting a panel as directed by the assembly to investigate the allegations against the governor contradicted Section 188 sub section 5 of the 1999 Constitution.
Akwashiki alleged that justice Suleiman knowingly recruited some members of the panel who are card- carrying members of a political party, and some office holders who are relations of the accused. This, he stated, would make such members to be partisan in dispensing justice and fair hearing would not be accorded to the other party.
Lacuna and petition to NJC
Sighting a lacuna in the establishment of the panel, in view of Section 188, the leader referred the House to part 1 of that schedule Section 7, column 20 of the 1999 of the constitution on the body responsible for the disciplinary of members of the judiciary.
“As law makers, we don’t want to match violence to violence, crisis to crisis. I therefore crave the indulgence of the House to write to the National Judicial Council, NJC, to investigate the activities of the chief judge of Nasarawa state in the setting up of the panel of investigation”, Akwashiki moved.
The motion was seconded by Deputy Leader of the House, Hon. Yahaya Usman, who represents Umasha/Ogha constituency.
Commenting on the motion, Hon. Orogu Francis (Keana constituenc y) said the issue before the House was a clear matter of the abuse of office by the chief judge of the state.
“The chief judge has joined forces and conspired with the political forces that are prepared to prevent the legislative body in Nasarawa state from doing its work. They are out to use every means both dubious and otherwise to frustrate us from achieving what ordinarily is called justice in the rule of law, and therefore the motion and secondment should stand,” he said.
Consequently, the Speaker, Ahmed Musa, directed the clerk of the House to forward a petition to the NJC within 24 hours to act accordingly.

Meanwhile, the Chairman Committee on Information and Security, Hon. Baba Ibaku, in a chat with reporters debunked allegations that Almakura bribed some top PDP leadership in and outside the state to the tune of over N700million to frustrate the lawmakers’ impeachment move.
Ibaku said the House does not care whether such thing exists or not because “all we are concerned about is how we will do justice to the issue at hand and we will never be distracted by anybody until we reach the end.”
If the NJC buys the view of the legislators, the vacating state chief judge may be suspended over violation of the provision of the constitution that mandates him to set up panel whose members do not belong to any political party. If that happens, a new panel may be constituted and Almakura may be impeached within 14 days.
Source told Vanguard that the assembly is relying so much on the NJC to suspend the Justice Dikko over an allegation that the CJ was given N100million by the Nasarawa state government as bribe and the panel members were paid N400million each against the N150, 000 originally meant to be paid to each member per sitting.
The APC has condemned the renewed plan by the Nasarawa House of Assembly to impeach Gov. Tanko Al-Makura, who has been cleared of the charges against him by a duly constituted impeachment panel.
In a statement issued in Ilorin recently  by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said it would amount to an illegality for the lawmakers to draft a pliant Vacation Judge, as it has been reported, to set up another panel to probe the same 16 allegations over which the Governor has been absolved of any wrongdoing.
The party said the governor cannot be impeached on the basis of the same allegations, noting that if indeed the lawmakers want to follow the Constitution, they will have to find a new set of impeachable offences against the governor, notify him appropriately and then forward their request to the Chief Judge, not to a Vacation Judge.
“That this latest move by the legislators, who are now marooned in Abuja instead of their base in Lafia, is being instigated by the PDP is not in doubt, irrespective of the unconvincing and tepid denial from the party. That this illegality is being contemplated under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan is clear for all to see. In fact, it is in line with the culture of lawlessness and impunity for which the Jonathan Administration has now become infamous,” the party said.