Niger state governor Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has sought the intervention of the traditional leaders and elder statesmen in the state to intervene in the ongoing moves by the lawmakers to impeach him.
Aliyu who has less than three weeks to end his tenure, fearing being disgraced out of office had also last week sought court intervention to halt his impeachment.
Our correspondent gathered that despite the governor’s quick rush on Thursday last week to High Court seeking injunction after a failed meeting with the new Speaker, Hon. Isah Kawu, did not relent in his effort but has gone ahead to seek the intervention of the state traditional council led by its chairman, Etsu Nupe Yahaya Abubakar and the elder statesmen in the state.
Subsequently, a Minna high court has issued an order restraining the Niger state House of Assembly from commencing any impeachment process against Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu following the recent change of leadership at the state Assembly.
Report has it that the governor was still not comfortable since the removal of his only reliable Speaker, Barrister Adamu Usman who served under Governor Aliyu as Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice that has been described as a stooge to Aliyu in the house and was impeached by the two third members of the Assembly.
Although, the former Speaker made it cleared the day he was impeached that Governor Aliyu should be prepared for a show down with the members who were targeting his impeachment.
“What it means now is that Babangida Aliyu should get himself prepared because I advised him before hand on this matter. So, anything that comes out of it, he should get prepared” the ex Speaker said.
It was reliably gathered that the governor has also sought the intervention of the two elder statesmen and former military president and head of state respectively, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar appealing to them to save the situation for him in order not to be disgraced out of office as the governor of the state who has served for almost eight years.
The police in Niger state had averted the impeachment process of Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu as the new Speaker Hon. Isah Kawu and other twenty Assembly members who were tear gas last week while coming into the Assembly complex to begin sitting as promised.
The police and other security agents locked up the gate to prevent the people especially the Assembly members and its workers from entering even as they fired tear gas canisters all over the Assembly complex.
This was to prevent the new leadership from commencing impeachment of Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu for not carrying members along and other misconducts as alleged.
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