Tuesday 1 July 2014

Nyako Is As Good As Gone - Ardo

The battle to impeach Gov. Murtala Nyako of Adamawa reached a crescendo last week with the state legislature and the governor playing hide-and-seek over the service of the Impeachment Notice.
In this interview, Dr. Umar Ardo, a former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and one of the major opposition figures says that no one can save the governor from the impeachment, insisting that Nyako is as good as gone.
Excerpts:

What is your take on the current battle to impeach Gov. Murtala Nyako?
Most people in Adamawa are desirous of regime change. Given the way the governor led the state for the past seven years, the people of the state are uncomfortable because he has virtually brought the state to its knees- politically, economically, in terms of infrastructure and security-wise. He has destroyed constitutionalism. Rule of law and election process in the state.
Since the governor came to power, there have not been elections in the state, whether internal elections within the party, either to elect the party executives or local government elections for councilors and chairmen. So all these things collectively destroyed the democratic base of the state and these made the people of Adamawa State incapable of using their God-given talents to carter for themselves.
You said that there have been no elections in the state since the governor came to office but not long, there were party ward congresses where officials of the party at that level were elected?
But you heard the troubles that came up- virtually APC is dead because they did not conduct the party's congresses according to the party's guidelines.
I am not a member of the APC but it made members like Gen. Buba Marwa and a lot of that party's leaders to abandon that party and to return to the PDP. That shows that Murtala Nyako does not respect the wishes of the people in any kind of election in the state.
Do you know that the chairmen and councilors in Adamawa State were sworn-in around 6.30 in the morning? That was because the governor knew that waiting for them to be sworn-in at 8 or, 9 or 10 in the morning would have been impossible as people were ready to obtain court injunction to stop him from swearing them in because there were issues.

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