By Abdullahi M. Gulloma
Acting governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintri, said yesterday that the state government under his leadership “is now building confidence and paying salaries and entitlements of workers owed by the impeached governor, Murtala Nyako.”
Fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, Fintri said the state was also building people and infrastructure that were destroyed by the impeached governor.
He said: “Adamawa is fine, Adamawa is calm. We are into confidence building, having removed Nyako and the destruction of infrastructure and moral of our people. We have gone into building of confidence. We are trying to pay our salaries, including salaries of workers because for months, he has not paid. That is what we are doing now.”
The acting governor also said: “You saw the allegations and they have been proven by the panel.”
He said there were even many other issues that assembly could not bring as part of the allegations that formed the removal of Nyako as governor.
Denying that members of the House of Assembly collected money to remove the governor, Fintri said: “Who gave the money? There must be an evidence of the person who gave the money. In this country, people are used to whatever situation that happened, it is about money. Who gave the money?”
On the allegation that President Jonathan was using impeachment threats to muscle the opposition, Fintri said: “Nyako is not an opposition man. He only stole the mandate of the PDP into the APC. How did the president get involved in this local issue in Adamawa? The man has stolen our money. That is the bottom line of it.”
