A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and member of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has accused the Presidency of orchestrating the impeachment of the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako.
Fuming few minutes after the news of Nyako’s removal by the Adamawa State House of Assembly filtered in, El-Rufai stated that the development was capable of “endangering the nation.”
Writing on his Facebook page on Tuesday, the former minister, however, alleged that the scheming by the Presidency to deal with the APC was not over.
According to him, he and other leaders of the party have uncovered plots by the Presidency to perfect the impeachment of three more governors from the opposition party.
He listed the governors as Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State.
“Jonathan’s impunity is endangering the nation. Adamawa APC governor Murtala Nyako was impeached to pave the way for a PDP man to become governor.
“Nasarawa is next. Then, Rivers and Edo. And President Jonathan thinks that all will be well while he violates the constitution and the law. We will see how it all ends. We have been there before!” he wrote in a post on his Facebook page.
While no social media accounts could be traced to Nyako, socio-political commentators have gone online to bare their minds on his impeachment.
A message on the official Twitter page of a former Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki, stated that with the impeachment of Nyako, it seemed as if Nigeria was “heading towards a one-party state.”
Also, Rukaiya, a native of Adamawa State and daughter of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, blamed Nyako for his travails.
She described Nyako as being “the worst of them all”, adding that it was unfortunate that he could not “handle” the members of the state legislature
“Nyako could not handle the legislators in his own state, he was never a politician in the first instance. Good riddance to bad rubbish! Nyako has really been the worst of them all!” Rukaiya, who shuttles between Yola, London and Dubai, wrote on her Twitter page.
An online commentator, Chukwu Debelu, stated that the APC’s underestimation of the Peoples Democratic Party contributed to the successful impeachment of Nyako.
An impeachment plot, Debelu argued, takes several weeks of “methodical planning” before being successful.
According to him, while APC was busy grabbing local and international headlines, the PDP worked underground to impeach Nyako.
“I remember Awolowo referring to Shagari as a ‘glorified Grade II teacher’. You don’t underestimate your opponent. Never!
“Now, Nyako has been impeached. I remember the triumphalism from APC earlier this year. PDP should never be underestimated.
“While APC was seizing local and international headlines, the PDP was working silently and methodically to remove Nyako who was put under the radar.
“You don’t impeach a sitting governor in a day. It takes weeks and months of methodical planning.”
Political blogger, Japheth Omojuwa, described the political climate in Adamawa as a “thriller.”
He is of the opinion that Nyako paid dearly for being on the offensive against the President. He, however, blamed the ex-governor for going on the attack “without cover at home.”
Describing the removal of Nyako as a “Machiavellian scheming” from the Presidency, he stated that he should have emulated Amaechi who, he argued, made sure he had his state house of assembly on his side before “going on the attack.”
“Nyako bites the dust. We are the world’s biggest joke and our democracy is at best a joke. However, if he was a performing governor, there’d have been an argument for him,” Omojuwa added on Twitter.
Another respondent, Ogunyemi Bukola, linked Nyako’s travails to the 8-page memo he wrote to Jonathan in which he accused the Federal Government of genocide against northern Nigeria.
Wondering why the APC national leadership could not save Nyako from impeachment, Bukola accused the President of stifling out opposition.
“Sanusi wrote Goodluck Jonathan and he was removed from office as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Murtala Nyako also wrote the President and he was impeached as Adamawa Governor. I think it is safe to say there would be no more letters of criticisms addressed to Jonathan,” Bukola tweeted. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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ReplyDeleteEl Rufai you are just senseless
ReplyDeleteAPC ! Progress ! Bam ! Gbosaa! ah ! Egba mi oo!
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with writing a letter to Mr. President if its devoid of malicious allegations enmeshed in sacarcisms, incitive comments and vituperation. The aforementioned were not objective and constructive in their critique.
ReplyDeleteRubbish and hogwash
DeleteImpeachments should be reserved for the most gross violations and is a lenghty process. Impeachments are very disruptive and that's why they can't be pursued in a hurry such as appeared to be the case here. If Nyako's removal was in part due to teachers salaries, that does not appear to be an impeachable offence. Otherwise the president of the country would be removed over salary issues invloving civil servant. Even those who are taking over the functions of the governor are among the same ones that moved for his impeachment. That's purely self-serving and childish. The citizens of the state or country should not fold their arms and watch a handfull of immature individuals destroy their state. We are at fault for doing this. You can't just remove a governor who was elected by the people at the stroke of the pen simply because you think you can, being a majority in the house. This country is dying, and people should object to these rascalities before it's too late.
ReplyDeletegaskia nyako did not commit impeachable offecces to my understanding but he was too arrogant as a leader. pdp is also right for such intelligent move to their benefit. this is political game. where others make mistakes others talk the advantage. pdp pls leave nassarawa govt alone. the old man has never insulted the president of the federation openely any day. leave oshiomole too pls but face ameachi for his stubborn headedness.
ReplyDeleteel rufai u are a very big and confused fool.
ReplyDeleteAnother pathetic example of the northern elites agenda.
ReplyDeleteEl Rufai is a joke to think that the pdp will let their structures move to the apc unchallenged. Serving governors elected on the pdp platform, swithed camp to another family and all u do is take headlines in national dailies. This is political tsunami. The strategy is allow apc to dissipate all their energy in propaganda but strike and score goals when it matters. PDP is unleashing their arsenals using counter attack. It is 2 goals to 0 in favour of the ruling party. Even Lagos and Kano may go to pdp if care is not taken. Capoca.
ReplyDeleteA million Jonathan and d PDP can't touch Amaechi or Oshomhole. They can only try.
ReplyDeleteWhat about obj that wrote gej,would he be impeach
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