TRAITOR!:"My Deputy Betrayed Me"Says Suntai,Ailing Governor Of Taraba State.

AILING Taraba State Governor Danbaba
Suntai has accused his deputy, Alhaji Garba
Umar, of betrayal. Suntai said he least
expected the deputy governor to lust for
his (Suntai’s) office given the confidence he
reposed in him.

Suntai, who spoke through his Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity,
Mr. Sylvanus Yakubu, said the governor was
not the only one that felt betrayed but the
entire people of the state.

Yakubu, who was reacting to Umar’s
statement on Tuesday that he was 100 per
cent loyal to Suntai and would not
undermine his authority, said, “His
(Umar’s) activities are a direct opposite of
what he keeps saying.”.

Yakubu, in a statement made available to
newsmen in Jalingo, the Taraba State
capital, on Thursday, added that he had
personally lost the respect for Umar, who
has been the state acting governor since
October last year when Suntain sustained
injuries when the small aircraft he flown
crashed in nearby Adamawa.

“The deputy governor keeps talking of 100
per cent loyalty, but the reverse is the case;
his people are in court against Governor
Suntai,” he said.

Besides the allegation that Umar bribed the
state lawmakers to transmit power to him
to continue to act, he also accused the
deputy governor of being the sole financier
in the suit Danbaba filed against some
members of the House of Assembly.

Yakubu said, “What we want is to see him
(Umar) showing concern for the governor’s
health, and loyalty to his principal, by
negotiating with him on how to resolve the
political impasse.

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“The governor had on August 28
announced the dissolution of the executive
and new appointments but Umar
disregarded the dissolution. A cabal was
trying to hijack the machinery of
government.”

Meanwhile, a former Speaker of the Taraba
State House of Assembly, Alhaji Habu Isa,
has said that Umar’s continued stay in
office as acting governor was
constitutional.

Isa said in a statement on Thursday that
Umar’s tenure as acting governor was in
order since the House had passed a
resolution for him to continue in that
capacity till Suntail would be fit to resume
his office.

He said, “The lawmakers were convinced
that the governor they met was not the
source of the letter of resumption sent to
the House. Their efforts to set up a médical
panel was blokked when by proxy the state
executive council was dissolved,
Left with no other option in the interim.

“The State Assembly passed a resolution
mandating Alhaji Umar to continue in
acting capacity.”