Amos Dunia in Abuja—Embattled governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Murtala Nyako has declared that he never contemplated ever resigning from office as a result of the impeachment process initiated against him by the State House of Assembly.
Nyako, who made his position known during a chat with journalists at the Presidential Villa, Abuja where he attended the launch of the Steering Committee of the Safe School Initiative Wednesday said there was no basis for his consideration of resignation stressing that the impeachment has not reached a crisis point.
He further said: ?The state is calm and the issue is before the court. I expect the lawmakers to obey the rules in anything they do. Well, it is in court and the court said it was not well done.
?We are hoping that if they want to do it, they will do it by following the normal process in whatever they want to do.?
Asked on whether he has reached out to President Goodluck Jonathan to assist in intervening, he said he is yet to do so since the crisis is still under control and has not and may not reach crisis point.
The embattle governor however said that where there is need for assistance from the President, he will surely do so even as he expressed the hope that President Jonathan may step in since the state had also been there for the President.
He said: ?The President, I am sure would intervene when it matters. We have supported him all this time; he has supported us and in situations like these when Mr. President?s support is required, we will seek it.?
He said the insinuations that some former Heads of State had spoken to the President on his behalf was an excellent move adding that his state is a very interesting place.
According to him: ?If I tell you we have 87 ethnic groups and the two religions are fairly balanced, iIt means that being sensitive to each and everyone of us is very important. It is a place of intellectualism; everybody has his own point of view and you have a group of people who share a certain point of view and until it changes, they will maintain that point of view. But we have been peaceful somehow and we will remain peaceful.?
On rumoured plans to defect back to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Nyako said: ?Quite frankly, you know how I joined the PDP and partisan politics in the first place. It is not really my field. My field is known. You know what I was before. We are straightforward; have two distinctions: loyalty and disloyalty; two separate pieces.
?But one of the interior politicians told me that there are a lot of things in between loyalty and disloyalty which up till this moment I have not appreciated. So, for me, disloyalty with this type of attitude with Nigerian politics of today you are likely to step on toes of a few.?
Nyako, who was among the G5 governors that defected from the PDP to the APC some months back, has been faced with a serious impeachment threat from members of the State House of Assembly over issues bothering on maladministration and corruption among other things.
Source:?persecondnews
