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Impeachment: Atiku, Wamakko, Kwankwaso move to save Nyako

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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, former Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu,Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and Governor Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State haveĀ  stepped in to stopĀ  the plot to impeach Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State.

Nyako yesterday met with Atiku and Ribadu in Abuja to brief them on the plot against him.

The ex-vice president and Ribadu are from Adamawa.

It is understood that they haveĀ Ā  been trying to reach out to members of theĀ  Adamawa State House of Assembly to resolveĀ  the face-off with Nyako.

There were indications that a prominent Northern emir prevailed on Atiku to bail out Nyako.

A source said: ā€œEfforts to resolve the impeachmentĀ  are continuingĀ Ā  with the governorā€™s visit to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to draft him into the peace effort.

ā€œNyako, who was at Atikuā€™s Asokoro residence, was accompanied by Ribadu. The ex-EFCC chairman has also done his best in the last three days. Most stakeholders believe that Atiku is vital to the resolution of the Executive-Legislature face-off in Adamawa State.ā€

The Chairperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamawa State Chapter, Hon. Binta Garba Koji, was also present in the house.

Shortly upon the governorā€™s arrival, they went into a closed-door meeting.

Atiku was said to haveĀ  committed himself to meeting the members of the state legislatureĀ  last nightĀ Ā  to try and persuade them to drop the impeachment bid.

ā€œWhere this fails, we hope that the former Vice President will ask his loyalists to withdraw their signatures.

ā€œOnce he does that, the impeachment process will collapse because the requisite number for it to continue would have been lost,ā€ the source said.

Another source said: ā€œI think it is part of a series of meetings that these leaders had in the past few days. There was a communication gap between the governor and the lawmakers, and they are trying to see how this can be addressed.

ā€œThese leaders have opened up talks with some of the aggrieved lawmakers who have relocated to Abuja.

ā€œThere might be some headway because in this kind of situation, the two parties have to be mutually consultative.ā€

A third source said: ā€œWe learnt that a prominent emir in the North actually begged Atiku to save the situation in Adamawa.

ā€œThe emir, who is apolitical, was said to be concerned more about the aftermath of the impeachment than the politics of it.ā€

Many members of the State Assembly have alreadyĀ  relocated to Abuja apparentlyĀ  to perfect their strategy.

They were hosted to a dinnerĀ  in the Federal CapitalĀ on WednesdayĀ by a formerĀ  National Chairman of the party.

The assemblymen resolvedĀ on TuesdayĀ to serve the impeachment notice on the governor and his deputy,Mr.Bala Ngilira, for alleged financial mismanagement.

Following the unavailability of the governor inĀ  Yola to personally receive the notice,the legislators pasted theĀ  impeachment notice on the wall of Government House in Yola.

A team from theĀ  Assembly, escorted by heavily armed mobile policemen,Ā  pasted the notice on the wall of the Government House,a source in Yola said.

ā€œAlthough the Government House was under lock and key, they succeeded in pasting the impeachment notice when they could not locate the governor,ā€ said the source.

ā€œThey are just desperate about the whole thing, fuelling concerns that some forces outside the state areĀ  sponsoring the plot.

ā€œThere are arguments on whether the process was valid or not. So, there may be legal issues out of the procedure adopted by the Assembly.

ā€œI think some aggrieved people might go to court to challenge the desperate procedure adopted by the Assembly.

AnotherĀ  sourceĀ  said the governor and the assemblymen are in Abuja forĀ  ā€œintense horse-tradingā€ by bothĀ  parties.

He said: ā€œVirtually all the stakeholders, including the APC Chairman in Adamawa State, Hon. Binta Garba, are in Abuja to reconcile the governor and the lawmakers. This is the usual lobbying of the lawmakers.

ā€œGovernors Aliyu Wammakko and Rabiu Kwankwaso and some eminent Northerners have also waded intoĀ  the impeachment saga.

ā€œThey are seeking toĀ  prevail on the lawmakers to have a rethink.

ā€œThese governors have been meeting all day with some of the lawmakers in Abuja to see how to avert the plot.ā€

At theĀ Ā WednesdayĀ dinner for the state legislators, the ex-PDP National Chairman reportedly told his guests that ā€œit is a good development that you are trying to ensure probity and accountability in Adamawa State.ā€

He asked them to beĀ  ā€œfair and just in seeing through the impeachment proceedings.ā€

Meanwhile, the President, Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria, Comrade Shehu Sani, has described the impeachment plot against Nyako as a political vendetta.

Sani, who made his position known in a statement, accused the PDP ofĀ  sponsoring the plot.

He saidĀ  the impeachment noticeĀ  is ā€œnothing other than a scripted exercise by the ruling PDP to punish and persecute Governor Nyako for his principled stand to defect to the APC.The impeachment plot is a facade by the PDP and the Federal Government to retake the state.ā€

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