TVC E, POLITICS – Two years after impeachment of Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako,(Rtd) as Adamawa State Governor by lawmakers, the Court of Appeal Sitting in Yola has set aside the lawmakers’ decision.
The Yola Division of Appeal Court on Thursday nullified the impeachment of the former governor by the 23 Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers in 2014, describing it as null and void.
The five judges led by Justice Hannatu Sankey in their ruling unanimously set aside Nyako’s impeachment saying that his fundemental human right was infringed by the state House of Assembly describing the action of the lawmakers as impunity, recklessness rascality, arrogant and abuse of legislative power.
In the lead judgment read by Justice Tunde Ayotoye, noted that the respondents took law into their hands by flagrantly abusing the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to meet up their selfish desire adding that Nyako was not given fair hearing.
The court ordered that Nyako be accorded all rights of the office of the governor of Adamawa state through the period of office and be given all his entitlement as governor of the state while it lasted .
The court however, struck out the appeal of Nyako to be returned as governor of the state, saying on the grounds that his tenure as governor has elapsed.
Governor Nyako was impeached by the Adamawa state House of Assembly on Tuesday 16th July, 2014 following allegations of gross misconduct leveled against him by the house of assembly prompting him to go to court to seek the enforcement of his fundamental human rights as he said the impeachment was carried out without recourse to rule of law.
