The embattled Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, on Wednesday, vowed not to appear afore the seven-member investigative panel set up by the immediate-past Acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi.
Nyako verbalized through his Director of Press and Public Relations, Ahmad Sajoh, via the telephone with one of our correspondents.
The governor verbalized just as the panel set up to investigate allegations against him and his deputy, Mr. James Ngilari, secured an incipient venue for its sitting.
The panel was thrown out of its former venue, the J&J Holiday Villa by the owners who cited security concerns.
The hotel management was verbalized to have abnegated the panel on the grounds that an immensely colossal presence of soldiers at the venue would scare away customers from the hotel.
The committee was withal turned back at others hotels in Yola, which it contacted, after it was ejected from J & J Holiday Villa.
The panel was rebuffed at the Nigeria Labour Congress Club and Nigeria Coalescence of Journalists Press Centre.
Members of the panel spent the more preponderant part of Tuesday, probing for alternative venues but failed to secure one after they were turned down by other organisations.
Reprieve came the way of the panel on Wednesday, after the Medical and Health Workers Cumulation of Nigeria concurred to sanction the panel use its conference hall for its deliberations.
The decision of the coalescence to sanction the panel use its facility is additionally a subject of controversy as the state chairman of the coalescence, Mr. Jeremiah Nkyekwar, told heralds he was not vigilant of any acquiescent to sanction the panel the utilization of the facility.
The panel has, in continuation of its activities, promulgated Friday, July 11, 2014 as the date for its next sitting.
A notice to this effect was pasted on the gate of Government House Yola, at about 3: 45pm.
But armed riot policemen averted journalists from approaching the gate to read the contents of the notice as of the time of filing this report.
Nyako, however, verbally expressed he had no intention of venerating any invitation by the panel because “it is an illicit body which has no substructure in law.”
Speaking through Sajoh, Nyako verbally expressed, “They are not supposed to paste the notice. They are supposed to accommodate it. Besides, the panel was illicitly constituted because those behind it ignored a subsisting court order.
“The composition of the committee itself is faulty indicted persons as well as card carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party are among the panelists.”
Seemingly unperturbed by happenings at home, Nyako who was in Abuja to attend the inauguration of the Steering Committee of the Safe School Initiative at the Presidential Villa, told State House correspondent’s that the situation was under control.
He told heralds that the matter had not reached a point where he would call on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene.
When asked to substantiate if he had been endeavoring to reach out to the President for his intervention, the embattled governor simply verbally expressed, “Not yet. It has not reached that crisis point.”
The governor, however, verbally expressed he would not hesitate to seek Jonathan’s assistance whenever he felt the desideratum to do so.
“We have fortified him (the President) all this time; he has fortified us and in situations like these, when Mr. President’s support is required, we will seek it,” he verbalized.
When confronted with media reports that two former bellwethers had approached the President on his behalf, Nyako simply verbalized, “That will be excellent!”
He expressed the notion that the lawmakers would follow due process in their activities since issues bordering on the impeachment move were already in court.
Nyako verbalized “Well, it is in the court and the court verbalized it was not well done. We are hoping that if they optate to do it, they will do it following the mundane process in whatever they optate to do.
