PDP hails impeachment of Nyako
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described last week’s impeachment of the former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, as an act carried exclusively by the people of the state without external interference.
The PDP in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Olisa Metuh, said impeachment of the governor is a constitutional right granted exclusively to the people of Adamawa State which they exercised through the votes of the overwhelming majority of the elected members of the State House of Assembly.
The PDP says it cannot be accused of having a hand in the impeachment as it went through the rule of law and due process.
“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.”
Metuh said it is unfortunate that the APC that claimed to champion the rights of the people to choice of leadership was the same party turning against the constitutionally guaranteed right of the people to withdraw legitimacy through impeachment and recall.
“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 scape goat.”
The statement advised the APC to look inwards in finding answers to its woes and leave the PDP out of it, saying “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.”