Adamawa Crisis: Nyako's Planned
Impeachment Is A Threat To Peace- Shehu
Sani
Popular human rights activist and President of the Civil
Rights Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Shehu Sani, on Friday
berated the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal
Government for orchestrating the planned impeachment of
the Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako. He
described the move as a threat to the nation’s hard-earned
democracy.
He also warned that any attempt to rig the Ekiti State
Governorship poll slated for June 21, would amount to
inciting the electorate against the government of the day.
Sani also condemned said the impeachment notice served
on Nyako and his deputy, Bala Ngilari, by the state
assembly, saying that the move was a script being acted out
by the PDP to persecute the governor for defecting to the pdp
All Progressives Congress.
In an electronic message to newsmen in Kaduna on Friday,
Sani insisted that the impeachment plot was a plot by the
PDP and the Federal Government to retake the state.
According to him, the impeachment was not only a threat
to peace, but to the entire democratic process, which was
earned through struggle and sacrifice.
While recognising the constitutional rights of the state
legislators to perform their oversight responsibilities, he
noted that it was “dishonorable, unethical and immoral for
the legislators to compromise their conscience and allow
themselves to play the puppet.”
He said, “The impeachment is a threat to peace and the
democratic process. It’s unacceptable. Governor Nyako is a
victim of political vendetta.
“It’s most unfortunate that while the nation burns in the
flames of insurgency, the ruling PDP and the Federal
Government is more interested in intimidating and
harassing dissenting and defecting state governors.
“The action by the Adamawa State House of Assembly is
no different from the earlier failed attempts made in Rivers,
Nasarawa, Kano and Edo states. Removing Nyako and his
deputy amount to nothing but regime change in disguise.”
On the Ekiti State governorship election, the pro-
democracy activist warned that the election must not be
rigged.
He condemned the reported harassment and intimidation of
APC governors on their way to the state for the APC rally.
He noted that the state’s governorship election would be a
pointer to the 2015 general election, adding that it would be
a bad omen for the 2015 elections, if the Independent
National Electoral Commission failed to conduct a free, fair
elections in the state.
He warned the military and other security agencies to
refrain from being partisan, noting that the nation’s
democratic process was never a gift from the military, but
rather a product of bitter struggle and sacrifice.
He said, “The PDP needs to be reminded that it cannot win
elections with the Army and the Police alone. Nigeria’s
democratic process is not a gift given to us by the military,
it was a product of bitter struggle and sacrifice.
“ We will not fold our arms and watch it been
systematically destroyed by desperate forces in Government
and the ruling g