The embattled Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, has vowed not to appear before the seven-member investigative panel set up by the immediate-past Acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justice Ambrose Mammadi.
Nyako spoke through his Director of Press and Public Relations, Ahmad Sajoh, said he had no intention of honouring any invitation by the panel because “it is an illegal body which has no basis in law.”
“They are not supposed to paste the notice. They are supposed to serve it. Besides, the panel was illegally constituted because those behind it ignored a subsisting court order.
“The composition of the committee itself is faulty indicted persons as well as card carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party are among the panelists.”
Seemingly unperturbed by happenings at home, Nyako who was in Abuja to attend the inauguration of the Steering Committee of the Safe School Initiative at the Presidential Villa, told State House correspondent’s that the situation was under control.
He told reporters that the matter had not reached a point where he would call on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene.
When asked to confirm if he had been trying to reach out to the President for his intervention, the embattled governor simply said, “Not yet. It has not reached that crisis point.”
The governor, however, said he would not hesitate to seek Jonathan’s assistance whenever he felt the need to do so.
“We have supported him (the President) all this time; he has supported us and in situations like these, when Mr. President’s support is required, we will seek it,” he said.
When confronted with media reports that two former leaders had approached the President on his behalf, Nyako simply said, “That will be excellent!”
He expressed the belief that the lawmakers would follow due process in their activities since issues bordering on the impeachment move were already in court.
Nyako said “Well, it is in the court and the court said it was not well done. We are hoping that if they want to do it, they will do it following the normal process in whatever they want to do.”
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