Filing Taraba State Governor Danbaba Danfulani Sunti’s personal effects have been packed out of the Government House, it was gathered at the weekend.
Suntai is being treated in a hospital in Hannover, Germany for injuries he sustained in a plane crash in Yola, Adamawa State on October 25, 2012.
His security aides, some of whom were involved is the crash, also had their property evacuated from the Government House, it was also learnt.
Suntai flew the aircraft on the fateful day.
Some of the property were clothes, books and vehicles.
Home appliances were also moved to the governor’s house in Jalingo, the state capital, and to Yola, where he also has a house.
Suntai’s Jalingo home is close to the Presidential Lodge.
Suntai’s personal vehicles were reportedly taken to his (Suntai’s) house in Yola Adamawa State, the previous Sunday night.
“The vehicles were driven in a convoy to his No 1, Suntai Street in Karewa.
“The 13 drivers, after delivering the vehicles returned to Jalingo in a bus marked: TGH 131,” The said, adding that seven out of the 13 vehicles had never been used.
The personal effects of the governor’s Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Dasat Iliya, the Chief Security Officer (CSO), Timo Dangana and his Chief Detail, Joel Dan, were evacuated in the day time.Suntai and the three security aides were involved in the crash. They survived the mishap with varying degrees of injuries.
The CSO and the Chief Detail have recovered and returned to the state. But Suntai and his ADC are still being treated in Hannover.
Acting Governor Alhaji Garba Umar after visiting him in Germany said Suntai’s condition was stable.
The evacuation of Suntai’s property from the Government House followed his wife, Hajiya Hauwa’s visit to Jalingo the previous weekend.
It was learnt that Mrs. Suntai held meetings with the wives of members of the House of Assembly, commissioners and chairmen of local government councils. She reportedly pleaded with her loyalists to give the acting governor’s wife, Mrs. Garba Umar, the cooperation she enjoyed from them.
Mrs. Suntai was quoted as saying she and her husband never imagined that they would one day be in the Government House; adding that “what has happened is an act of providence; so, we thank God for everything.”
Mrs. Suntai also held a prayer service, asking Taraba people to pray for her ailing husband and their new born twins.
She left Jalingo on February 18 for Yola and Abuja.
The governor’s wife did not pick calls to her telephone line last night. She also failed to respond to text messages.
Her Press Secretary Abdulmalik however denied that the governor’s belongings were being packed out of the Government House. “It is a lie,” he told The Nation on the telephone.
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Source: Nation
