In what appears to be the first step towards an armistice, the embattled Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, on Thursday, inaugurated administrators for 36 development areas, four permanent secretaries and a special adviser.
Nyako’s earlier refusal to endorse the list of development area administrators presented to him by the House, led to the breakdown of the relationship between him and the legislators.
It was learnt that the inauguration was a component of an acquiescent reached between the feuding parties after a series of meetings with the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Mr. Ahmadu Fintiri and some members of the House, in Abuja.
The former Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. P.P Elisha, whose nomination for appointment as a commissioner by the House of Assembly, was withal inaugurated as the Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Regime Affairs.
However, a source privy to the happenings confided in our correspondent that the governor’s action was “just for tranquility to reign” because he was vigilant that hardliners were still probing for loopholes to nail Nyako.
Members of the panel set up to investigate allegations levelled against the governor and his deputy have not withdrawn the invitation sent to both men to appear afore it on Friday (today).
Earlier, while addressing the incipiently inaugurated administrators, Nyako charged them to pay close attention to the provision of dividends of democracy especially for the people at the grassroots, who form the bulk of those deserving of government’s attention.
Nyako additionally urged them to withal ascertain “mass mobilization for sustained placidity and halcyon co-subsistence among the diverse people of the state.”
In a cognate development, some of the lawmakers who have been linked with the impeachment move against Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngillari, have had their Ramadan gifts abnegated by their constituents.
Some of those affected include the members representing, Mubi North, Abubakar Umar Jaringo, Girei constituency, Abubakar Umar, and the member representing Maiha Local Regime, Hassan Kaigama.
It was amassed that the constituents took the eccentric step to show their displeasure over the alleged involution of the affected lawmakers in the impeachment plot.
A resident of Gerei, Malam Saidu Girei verbally expressed, “We may be impecunious but we have not disoriented our sense of fairness. We cannot accept gifts from apostates.”
Mr. Yohanna David, who verbalized with heralds on behalf of a group of Maiha indigenes under the aegis of the Maiha Concerned Citizens verbalized, “We expected them to consult us afore they blindly fortified the move for the impeachment of Governor Nyako and his deputy. We call on our lawmaker to retrace his step with immediate effect afore it is too tardy.”
