I won't appear before probe panel-Nyako
The embattled Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, on wednesday,vowed not to appear before the seven-member investigative panel set up by the immediate past Acting Chief Judge of Adamawa State, Justic Ambrose Mammadi.
Nyako spoke through his Director of press and public relations,Ahmad Sajoh,via the telephone with one of our correspondents
The Governor spoke just as the panel set up to investigate alleations against him and his deputy,Mr. James Ngilari, secured a new venue for its sitting.
The panel was thrown out of its former venue, the J&J Holiday Villa by the owners who cited security concerns.Members of the panel spent the better part of Tuesday,seaching foralternative venues but failed to secure one after they were turned down by other organisations.
The hotel management was said to have rejected the panel on the grounds that a lare presence of soldiers at the venue would scare away customers from the hotel.
The commitee was also turned back at others hotels in Yola,which it contacted,after it was ejected from J&J Holiday Villa.The panel was rebuffed at the Nigeria Labour Congress Club and Nigeria Union of Journalists Press Centre.
Reprieve came the way of the panel on Wednesday,after the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria agreed to allow the panel use its conference hall for its deliberaio
The decision of the union to allow the panel use its facility is also a subject of controversy as the state chairman of the union,Mr. Jeremiah Nkyekwar,told reporters he was not aware of any agreement to allow the panel the use of the facility.
The panel has,in continuation of its activities, announced Fridaay,July 11,2014 as the date for its next sitting
A notice to this effet was pasted on the gate of Government House Yola,at about 3:45pm.
But armed riot policemen prevented journalists from approaching the gate to read the contents of the notice as of the time of filing this report.
Nyako, however,said he had no intention of honouring any invitation by the panel because 'it is an illegal body which has no basis in law'
Speaking through Sajoh,Nyako said,"They are not supposed to paste the notice. They are supposed to serve it Beside,the panel was illegally constituted because those behind it ingnored a subsisting court order.
"The composition of the committee itself is faulty indicted persons as well as card carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Partyare 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 Goodluk 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.
Nyako spoke through his Director of press and public relations,Ahmad Sajoh,via the telephone with one of our correspondents
The Governor spoke just as the panel set up to investigate alleations against him and his deputy,Mr. James Ngilari, secured a new venue for its sitting.
The panel was thrown out of its former venue, the J&J Holiday Villa by the owners who cited security concerns.Members of the panel spent the better part of Tuesday,seaching foralternative venues but failed to secure one after they were turned down by other organisations.
The hotel management was said to have rejected the panel on the grounds that a lare presence of soldiers at the venue would scare away customers from the hotel.
The commitee was also turned back at others hotels in Yola,which it contacted,after it was ejected from J&J Holiday Villa.The panel was rebuffed at the Nigeria Labour Congress Club and Nigeria Union of Journalists Press Centre.
Reprieve came the way of the panel on Wednesday,after the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria agreed to allow the panel use its conference hall for its deliberaio
The decision of the union to allow the panel use its facility is also a subject of controversy as the state chairman of the union,Mr. Jeremiah Nkyekwar,told reporters he was not aware of any agreement to allow the panel the use of the facility.
The panel has,in continuation of its activities, announced Fridaay,July 11,2014 as the date for its next sitting
A notice to this effet was pasted on the gate of Government House Yola,at about 3:45pm.
But armed riot policemen prevented journalists from approaching the gate to read the contents of the notice as of the time of filing this report.
Nyako, however,said he had no intention of honouring any invitation by the panel because 'it is an illegal body which has no basis in law'
Speaking through Sajoh,Nyako said,"They are not supposed to paste the notice. They are supposed to serve it Beside,the panel was illegally constituted because those behind it ingnored a subsisting court order.
"The composition of the committee itself is faulty indicted persons as well as card carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Partyare 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 Goodluk 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.
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