Taraba: Suntai May Be Flown in Next Week

Danbaba Suntai

History has a way of repeating itself as there are strong indications that what played out at the height of the illness of the late President Umaru Musa Yar`Adua when he was brought back from Saudi Arabia under the cover of darkness and kept at the State House, Abuja even in his dying state may soon repeat itself in Taraba State.

This is because plans are said to be underway to fly ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai into the country in the cover of darkness in a bid by his loyalists to retain the governorship.A source hinted that the governor would soon be flown into the country and only trusted aides would be allowed to see him. The source said that the plan to bring him home was being conceived following the decision of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to set up a committee headed by Senator Hope Uzodimma to look into the prolonged absence of Suntai and recommend ways of addressing the problem. It is feared the committee may come up with a report that the governor is not fit and the Acting Governor Garba Umar be made substantive governor.

According to the source, ``The governor will be kept in a way that the public will be told the man is still recovering. You remember the dark room Yar`Adua was kept, that is what they are planning. I am making this disclosure because this game is not in the best interest of Danbaba Suntai himself``.

The past two weeks had witnessed an upsurge in pressure to force the state executive council and the state House of Assembly to apply Section 189 of the constitution to determine the medical status of the governor.