Adamawa House Commences Impeachment Proceedings Against Governor Nyako

It was stated that, months of acrimonious relationship existed between the executive and the legislature in the North-East state since the change in political party by the Governor from PDP to APC.
The politics of the state tensed up last Wednesday when commissioners failed to appear before the house for questioning on allegations of state finances which led to the Deputy Speaker, Kwamoti Laori (PDP-Numan), ordering the state Commissioner of Police to arrest commissioners who failed to show up and bring them before the house on Monday by 10 am.
The affected commissioners were that of Agriculture, Lucy Ishaku; Health, Lilian Stephen; Commerce, Ahmed Gorko and Land and Survey, Abdulrahman Shuaibu.
The Commissioner for Finance, Ibrahim Vokna, his counterpart for Works, Umaru Atiku, and the state Accountant General, Nasir Mohammed, had earlier appeared before the house and it was mentioned that a letter was received from the Secretary to the State Government, Kobis Thimnu, giving reasons to why he could not honour the summon and asked him to unfailingly appear on Monday.
On 27 May, an ultimatum of three days was giving to Mr Nyako and his government to return all illegal deductions made from workers’ salaries and allowances of May 2014. This fuelled speculation in the state that the Assembly was bent on sacking the governor.