Nasarawa Assembly Serves Al-Makura Impeachment Notice

The wind of impeachment in All
Progressives Congress, APC-controlled
states has swept to Nasarawa, where
Speaker of the State House of Assembly,
Alhaji Musa Ahmed Mohammed,
yesterday directed the clerk to serve
Governor Tanko Al-Makura an
impeachment notice.
The notice was sequel to a motion of
public interest raised by the deputy
majority leader of the House, Mr
Yahaya Usman (PDP, Umaisha/Ugya),
during plenary in Lafia.
The lawmaker had presented a document
before the Assembly containing
allegations of gross misconduct against
the governor, which he said was signed
by 20 of the 24 members of the
Assembly.
“I am on my feet to raise a motion
under the matter of public interest and
I will go direct to read the document I
have in my hand: this is a notice of
impeachment of Gov. Tanko Al-Makura
of Nasarawa State for gross misconduct
and for the violation of the Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999,
as amended, today being the 14th July,
2014.
“Twenty members out of the 24 members
of this House unanimously endorsed to
serve Governor Tanko Al-Makura notice
of impeachment”, Usman said.
Of the 24 state assembly members, only
four are of the ruling APC in the state.
The rest belong to the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP.
The speaker, who officially received the
impeachment notice, said it had
complied with the provisions of the 1999
constitution (as amended).
He, therefore, directed the clerk of the
House, Ego Maikeffi, to serve the
impeachment notice on Governor Al-
Makura immediately.
He said, “In the event that Governor
Tanko Al-Makura cannot be reached for
service, the clerk is directed to serve him
with the impeachment notice through the
media”.