…says no justification for Taraba gov’s removal from office
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja
Former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna, has said that the alleged plan to remove from office, the governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, is wicked, callous and irresponsible. Haruna, who suffered a similar fate in the twilight of his days in office during the power tussle between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, said for somebody to contemplate removing Danbaba because he is undergoing treatment at this point in time without actually knowing the issues, his state of health, is uncalled for.
Suntai, is presently recuperating in a hospital in Hanover, Germany, from injuries he sustained in a plane crash on October 25, 2012. He was reported to have personally piloted the plane. Haruna, who governed Adamawa from 1999 to 2007, revealed that everything said about Danbaba, that “he is brain dead” and “his case is irredeemable,” are just imaginations and not based on facts of his health status.
He further said: “If he was brain dead, nobody can tell you that he saw the report. It is just typical of Nigerians,” he said, adding: “To me, it is overstretching the fundamentals of politics.” While noting that politics is all about power, Haruna said: “But even in politics, there is compassion,” stating: “In the situation Danbaba found himself, what is required of every Nigerian, is prayers because it can happen to anybody. “Even if you don’t pilot the aircraft as he did himself, it can happen to you from the commercial aircraft. Even on the road, it can happen to you if you go by the road.
So, people should not remove compassion and morality from politics.” While refusing to bring in religious dimension into the politics occasioned by the ill-health of Suntai in Taraba State, Haruna said: “It is purely politics, it is purely the wickedness of heart.” Quoting the scriptures, Haruna said: “Even the scriptures acknowledge that the heart of man is full of evil,” declaring: “That is typical of what is happening.” According to him “there is no justification to call for Danbaba’s impeachment or removal from office. He had this accident on October 25.
And even in the civil service, if you give somebody acting position, he can act for three months before you even confirm him. “Danbaba has not even met the standard of even the civil service where you can function in an acting position just as his deputy is acting for him. And the framers of the constitution were not foolish to have provided for a deputy anyway. “We have had a situation in this country where the President of the Court of Appeal has been on suspension for almost a year. And throughout this period, his office was being acted by some other persons and for almost one year.
Is it because they were not elected? It is still a very important office, at least, another arm of government. “So, there is virtually no difference. And I don’t see the hurry. It is about morality. Even this provision of the constitution we are talking about, Section 190, every provision of the constitution, we must also exercise it with some level of responsibility. “For me, the call for the impeachment of Danbaba is just a wicked and callous one and it is irresponsible,” Haruna maintained. Asked if he was confident that Suntai would bounce back hale and hearty, Haruna said:“Absolutely! Absolutely! Even the photograph you saw, he is not somebody that is in a hopeless situation.
“Even if he is on a wheelchair, so long as he has a sound mind, he doesn’t look like somebody that is brain dead that they have been talking about or somebody who has problem with his spinal cord. If he has problem with his spinal cord, he won’t be able to sit. So, that photograph, at least, is a testimony to the fact that he is potentially picking up. “And instead of us to complement him with prayers so that he can fully walk into the purpose of God in his life, people are just contemplating impeachment and what have you. But for me, I am not surprised because I have a testimony.
“At a point, I didn’t travel out of the country on treatment, I was not sick, I was not involved in any accident; I went for my normal vacation, I transmitted a letter to the House, they acknowledged receipt, but in less than 10 days that I was away, my own deputy declared that he was the governor and even went ahead to sack my executive council. He dissolved my executive council, sacked other people from government.
“So, if that could happen to me at a point in time even though it was a period of political confusion, at the height of the quarrel between President Obasanjo and Vice President Atiku, you can see what external forces can do to overheat the system and I think the acting governor of Taraba, the deputy, will be ill-advised to fall into this gambit.”
Only God knows if what the man is saying is correct or not whether the governor is alive or not. I wish him quick recovery
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This is about Suntai as well as Taraba state. Suntai can take his time and fully recover. Life is transient. He should make the right choice of what is important: his life or the governorship?
Taraba is a state guided by Nigerian constitution. It is not a personal estate.The constitutional provisions should be followed. If Suntai must be constitutionally replaced for the good of the state, so be it.
here we go again with the stupid shenanigans. Has Suntai vacated his post?, Has he been discharging his duties? Is there a constitution in place to swear in the deputy governor after a period of absence? Haruna should go and sit down. He reminds me of Haruna at UI zoo.
The governor can never function again so Taraba state should wait forever for him. God is great.
This is a completely religious game in the Northern Nigeria.Northern muslims and Boko Haram are trying to exterminate all the Christian governors of the North so that they can be able to acheive their aims in taking over the president of Nigeria come 2015 with ease and less i forget Northern muslims wanted to islamise the whole North and they felt those Northern state that is being govern by the Christian governors will be a trait to their evil plans and thats why they kill Patrick Yakowa and now Sontai who couldnt die because of the plan clash they set for him and now they are planing to impeach him and the governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue have been crying that the same Northern muslims and Boko Haram were after his life.So my people there is a handwriting on the wall and we have to trade with caution
Stine Chykee, so all these accident were planned by Muslim ?. Suntain piloted air craft by him self, no any Muslim push him to buy an aircraft , Yakowo went for burial and it happen. so what wada who is a Muslim, will you say Christians did it. .
Stine my brother, we don’t know what these leaders are doing, is between them and God Almighty, we should only pray for them if necessary. It is only in Nigerian that religious leaders preaches in worship places that we should vote to Mr A and not Mr B on religious ground,politics of religion will not take us any where, they understand that they can divide us by religion. pls compare us with other African countries.
Politics in naija involves everything….good,bad and ugly…
stine u are not the only ogogoro dronker in the country when u drink do not use this site very soon u wil produce the north whom u think is responsible for the dead of yakowa u wil not escape this I promise u.we wil soon get the hell of u nd show that realy north is powerful useless human being like u .
Some deputy Governors are very wicked they knows the game too well,God will help us in this country
The south eastern Nigeria would to a distance to indict North and the Muslims for any woos of the nation. It s only Nigeria tha rebels are allow hold sensitive political positions and recognition. They surounded Jonathan with all the evils mechanization against the north and Muslims. We are watching them and see how far the would go. The north is north both Christian and Muslims northerner are one. We have come to term that the crisis in the north is sponsored from outside in name of Christianity and Islam.
Boni Haruna should go and sit down, is this not moral for Sutai to quit the scene considering his current state of affairs? Does he really know what happening if for some of you who are speaking for him? Let be sincere governance is serious business any vacuum created should be filled immediately. From the pictures shown in the national dailies to set confusion in Taraba State, one would deduct that the man is already a morrow who cannot identify where he was.
Nigerians re too desperate about power, not just to render service but to loot public treasury.
@ Danmusa, u are sounding more religious than a Nigerian future leader. No nation on earth had made it through religion, but of good conscience towards mankind. The north are too eager all the time to clinch on to power but non of them except Buhari can administer good governance others are just pepertual mediocre. If u really knows what governance is all about there is no reasonable moment u will ever opt a northerner to take over the leadership role in Nigeria for now after 38 yrs of mishandling Nigeria,s common wealth. We were adjudged as the most poorest nations on earth today because of northerners shameful performance in governance, so the south eastern Nigeria is rightly positioned to led Nigeria for it,s economic recovery. They have done it in their private capacities, even in the early 60′s that region was adjudged by the world body then as the fastest growing economy with south Korea. U even mentioned civil war to my hearing, this people has technological know how than northern Nigeria. Just look at the refineries that is given the entire nation nightmare for instance was souly handled by the then eastern scientist to produce motor spirit, kerosine, engine oil, gas, dissles, aviation fuels, two air ports, war arsenals just within three good months. Norths can not achieve all these even to the next one hundred yrs, you cann,t bit the reach.
Let there be no hurried impeachment of gov suntai rather let’s pray for his quick recovery.
Mahmud Hamzat i think silent is the best answer to a fool,cowboy,onyeugwu,uncircumcised and gworo chewing man like you.You dont even deserve internet access in the first place because your like are the people who says that Western education is a sin in islam so i wonder how you smuggle your way through internet and sunnewsonline
This Boni Haruna doesn’t understand the rule of law..Taraba State is not a personal property of Danbaba Suntai, The constitution provides for a transfer of power to his deputy in the event of his inability to govern .why did the governor fail to transfer power to his deputy?.
stine or satan whatevr u call yr self u have fail already. So u are one of those baster iyamiri that was send to come nd split north using religion now how do u see it.satan we are far far far ahead of u and as i told u we shall bring u to book .satan u always say whom u are anytime write been u a proffessor does not qualify u to be educated u look moro anytime u give submission as if u have never been to elementry school befor bc of yr babaric idea u want to use yr dirty mouth to talk about north which u are ignorant of .north consist of 19 state in which only two state are for christain (pla nd ben)the rest 17 are muslem state nd we live together as one even befor amalgamation but with the coming of these basters they taught they can split us one thing we normaly tell our no rthern christains is not to listen to iyamiris like satan otherwise they are going to be the one who wil sufer it satan yr mission shal be in vain mumu monkey banana wawanbanza dolon biafra shege yarkotoma burauban shaitan.
MAHMUD, THE 19 STATES U BOAST OF WAS CREATED BY THE IGBO MONEY AND THE IGBOS ARE THE ONES DEVELOPING UR STATES. IF ALL THE NORTHNERS ARE ONE, HOW COME U THE FULANIS KILL THE PLATEAU AND BENUE LIKE FOULS. MEANWHILE, KADUNA, BORNO ARE CHRISTIAN STATES
Destiny of a state should not be tied to one man, Stop this Turaicabalism. Do the right thing for your state.
religion has eaten deep in2 our dear nation. Anyway Nigeria isnt a nation cos i bliv a nation shld hav similar ways of life. D opposit is d case in nigeria. I still fail 2 understand y Lugard did d amalmagation. I advice d con3 gets split!
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