Plans by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Presidency’s foot soldiers to remove Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Al-Makura and replace him with his deputy has been uncovered.
Daily Trust reports that :Members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly are reportedly involved with the impeachment plot, and already impeachable offences are being complied against the governor. The PDP has 19 members in the assembly, while Al-Makura’s APC has five lawmakers.
According to Daily Trust’s source, the PDP is already wooing Deputy Governor Dameshi Barau Luka, who has had a frosty relationship with the governor since last year, to leave the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the impeachment, after which he would take over as a PDP governor and work for the party’s victory in Nasarawa in the 2015 elections. This, according to him is the “game plan”.
Luka has also reportedly been seen hobnobbing with PDP chiefs, including President Goodluck Jonathan, and he had criticised the APC for asking its federal lawmakers to block executive bills over “impunity” in Rivers State.
The state chapter of the APC later suspended the deputy governor from the party, citing the statements he made on the APC directive.
The source added that President Jonathan and other PDP bigwigs are scheduled to attend a big rally in the next couple of weeks in Lafia to receive APC defectors, among them the deputy governor as well as Senator Solomon Ewuga, an ally of the Nasarawa governor before the Ombatse uprising in May last year. He has already announced his defection to the PDP.
When contacted yester night, the Presidency said it ”has never wooed or invited the deputy governor of Nasarawa State to join the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It is the deputy governor himself that has decided to defect to the PDP and Mr. President cannot say no to it.”
Meanwhile, The deputy governor was unavailable for comments by telephone yesterday, but his spokesman Danjuma Joseph denied any impeachment plot against Al-Makura.
Also, PDP’s national publicity secretary Olisa Metuh could not be reached for comments.
For his part, a spokesman for Governor Al-Makura, Mr. Iliyasu Ali Yakubu, did not confirm nor deny the impeachment plot when contacted by our correspondent. He said the governor had survived the lawmakers’ onslaught previously and remained steadfast.
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