Political loyalists to ailing governor of Taraba State, Dambaba Suntai were shocked yesterday when the effort to return the bedridden governor to office hit the rocks.
According to SaharaReporters, political cabal in the state took the governor to his office in Jalingo, alongside his physical therapists to see if he could be smuggled back into office but after five minutes, the governor was not himself.
It was gathered that Suntai was then rushed back to the his mansion where, when asked where he was, he replied, “Airport.”
The cabal, reportedly funded by former Nigeria Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, later took Suntai to Aso Rock in Abuja to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan with the hope that things would change, but all to no avail.
However, insiders squealed that when President Jonathan discovered his condition, he immediately sent some security agents to meet with him; when they asked if he knew where he was, Suntai replied that he was in Jalingo.
He was then flown back to Jalingo Sunday night after the plot to reinstate him failed.
It would be recalled that Suntai, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25, 2012 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, had suffered extensive brain damage and failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany last year.
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