An Abuja Federal High court has sacked the acting
Governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri from office and ordered the immediate
reinstatement of the former deputy governor of the state, Mr Bala Ngilari,
(pictured above), as governor.
Ngilari
had on July 14th tendered a
letter of resignation to the state House of Assembly during the impeachment
process of his ex boss, Murtala Mohammed who was impeached on July
15th.
Delivering
his judgement today, the presiding judge said the letter
of resignation sent by Mr. Ngilari on July 14, 2014 to the House Speaker was
invalid, null and void as it breached the provisions of sections
306(1), (2) and (5) of the 1999 Constitution because it was addressed to the
Speaker and acted upon by the House of Assembly. He went further to state that
the letter was also written at a time when the impeached state Governor,
Murtala Nyako was still in office and so the letter should have been written to
him and not to the speaker
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