The impeached Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has dismissed the resignation of his deputy, Bala James Ngillari, declaring it as a nullity.
Nyako said his attention was drawn to what he described as the purported resignation of Ngillari, which was supposedly read on the floor of the State House of Assembly, before the governor’s impeachment.
According to him, the procedure adopted by Ngilari was alien to the constitution because the process for the resignation of the Deputy Governor was clearly defined.
The former governor said this in a statement on his behalf by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmad Sajoh.
He said, “We wish to state categorically that Section 306 (5) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as Amended) requires that the Deputy Governor resigns not to the House of Assembly but to the Governor.
“As of the time the supposed resignation was said to have been tendered in the House, Murtala H. Nyako was the Governor of Adamawa State.
“No such letter was written to him, none was received by him and none was approved by him. It should therefore be known that in the eyes of the Law, the Deputy Governor has not resigned. Barr. Bala James Ngillari is still the Deputy Governor of Adamawa State.
“This clarification is necessary to avert another subversion of the Constitution since the other processes relating to the impeachment saga have all been in contravention of the Constitution and the Law.”
The statement cautioned that the continued abuse of the constitution and the laws of the land might spell doom for Nigeria’s democracy.
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