The crisis between the executive and the legislative arms of the Nasarawa State Government is deepening with the Governor, Tanko Al-Makura, saying the fleeing lawmakers are on self-exile. Mr. Al-Makura, who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday through his Special Adviser on Media, Abdulhameed Kwarra, was reacting to speculations that the lawmakers would return next week to remove the governor illegally. Mr. Al-Makura said the lawmakers had been thoroughly disgraced with his acquittal by the panel that investigated the 16 charges of misconduct brought against him. He said, “You can see that with the acquittal of the governor by the panel, the state house of assembly has been thoroughly disgraced. They fled the state because they cannot stand the shame of the panel clearing the governor of any wrongdoing. “When the panel was still on, they enjoyed the protection of security agents but now they are on their own. They are just like any other citizen in the state.
They cannot come back to Lafia because of what they did.” The governor noted that the executive arm of the government had no issue with its counterpart in the legislature, adding that the lawmakers were free to return to the state and carry out their constitutional duties to the people of the state. However, he said it was the lawmakers, the Minister of Information and the leadership of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that have issues with the investigative panel that cleared Mr. Al-Makura As long as the lawmakers and their backers do not have issues with the governor, he said, the executive arm of the government would continue to ignore whatever speculations were being made within and outside the state.
The governor dismissed the speculations that the assembly might go ahead to remove him when it resumed next week, saying there was no grounds for such to happen under the law. He said, “The 1999 Constitution has clearly enunciated that when a panel has cleared a governor of the charges brought against him, he cannot be impeached on account of such charges. “We won’t join issues with the lawmakers because they have nothing against the governor. They have vowed to challenge the decision of the investigative panel. We will only join issues with them if they join us in the suit they intend to file against the panel. This is not the end of this article, to continue reading please follow the link below.
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