AILING
Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai has accused his deputy, Alhaji
Garba Umar, of betrayal. Suntai said he least expected the deputy
governor to lust for his (Suntai’s) office given the confidence he
reposed in him.
Suntai, who spoke through his Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Sylvanus Yakubu, said the
governor was not the only one that felt betrayed but the entire people
of the state.
Yakubu, who was reacting to Umar’s
statement on Tuesday that he was 100 per cent loyal to Suntai and would
not undermine his authority, said, “His (Umar’s) activities are a
direct opposite of what he keeps saying.”.
Yakubu, in a statement made available to
newsmen in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, on Thursday, added that
he had personally lost the respect for Umar, who has been the state
acting governor since October last year when Suntain sustained injuries
when the small aircraft he flown crashed in nearby Adamawa.
“The deputy governor keeps talking of
100 per cent loyalty, but the reverse is the case; his people are in
court against Governor Suntai,” he said.
Besides the allegation that Umar bribed
the state lawmakers to transmit power to him to continue to act, he also
accused the deputy governor of being the sole financier in the suit
Danbaba filed against some members of the House of Assembly.
Yakubu said, “What we want is to see him
(Umar) showing concern for the governor’s health, and loyalty to his
principal, by negotiating with him on how to resolve the political
impasse.
“The governor had on August 28 announced
the dissolution of the executive and new appointments but Umar
disregarded the dissolution. A cabal was trying to hijack the machinery
of government.”
Meanwhile, a former Speaker of the
Taraba State House of Assembly, Alhaji Habu Isa, has said that Umar’s
continued stay in office as acting governor was constitutional.
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