The chairman of APC Governors’ Forum Owelle Rochas Okorocha being the governor of Imo State has called on the political leaders and members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly to drop the impeachment moves against their governor Alhaji Murtala Nyako in the interest of the country’s fragile peace. He also pleaded to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene on the political crisis rocking the state, adding that the impeachment move is ill timed and capable of increasing the state of insecurity in the area.
Owelle Rochas Okoroc
Governor Nyako was recently reported to have been served an impeachment notice by the Adamawa State House of Assembly and 19 members of the State House of Assembly have already signed the impeachment notice out of 26 members of the said house.
Adamawa State is among the three states under the state of emergency in the Northern Nigeria occasioned by countless bombing of public institutions and churches, kidnapping and bank robbery activities by members of the Islamic extremists Boko Haram.
“I call on President Dr Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the matter and see that the impeachment moves against the Adamawa State Governor is brought to a halt. The horrible security situation in the country at the moment does not call that. It would smack of insensitivity for anybody to be talking about impeachment of a sitting governor”.
The APC governors’ Forum chairman urged other stakeholders in Adamawa State not to allow their state already in the state of security challenges to be plunged into another stage of political crisis.
Governor Okorocha said that the energy that would be spent on the impeachment exercise would be more useful if directed towards efforts to secure the release of Chibok girls alive from their abductors Boko Haram.
He called on all those concerned to allow peace to reign and have a rethink over the impeachment moves against the Adamawa State governor and put heads together and move state forward.