The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said that the impeachment of former Governor of Adamawa state, Murtala Nyako, was an act of democracy.
It also said the All Progressives Congress (APC) was being haunted by bad governance.
PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, said: “The impeachment of the former Governor of Adamawa state, Murtala Nyako,
is an act of democracy. It is a constitutional right granted
exclusively to the people of Adamawa state and no other. This, they exercised through the votes of the overwhelming majority of the elected
members of the House of Assembly who also accorded rule of law and due process the rightful place in removing Nyako.
“Therefore, allegations by the All Progressives Congress (APC), linking the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and President Goodluck Jonathan to this are purely escapist and can only come from revisionists and reactionary forces, the unmasked pretenders to democracy.”
Continuing, it said: “It is really an irony but what does one expect from the APC that is undergoing febrile seizure over the furious collapse of its imagined dominance of Nigeria’s political space? It is not surprising that the
drowning, who is striving to clutch on any available straws would turn
the PDP into a scapegoat.”
It advised the APC to look inwards in finding answers to its woes and leave the PDP out of it, saying that “if a sitting governor who has spent over seven years in office could be removed by more than two-third of the members of his state assembly, reasons should be located to fundamental factors within rather than the trite excuses of external influence.”
The party, however, said “those having sleepless nights over the impeachment were not indigenes of Adamawa, rather selfish APC leaders from other states benefiting from siphoned resources of Adamawa people.”
