Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai
Recuperating Taraba State Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, who returned to Nigeria on Sunday after 10 months in Germany and the United States where he was receiving medical treatment, may not return to work so soon as the state House of Assembly is indisposed to grant his request expediently. The governor, in line with Section 190 of the 1999 Constitution, had written the legislature to inform it of his return and readiness to resume his official duties.
Already, his attempt to assume executive duties has divided the leadership of the legislature.
Expressing doubts over the governor’s capacity to discharge the functions of his office as a result of the injuries he sustained in a plane crash in October 2012, the state assembly Speaker, Hon. Haruna Tsokwa, told reporters yesterday in Jalingo that Suntai must convince the lawmakers and the people that he was fit enough to resume work.
The situation in the state has also polarised civil society groups (CSOs) as some of them yesterday expressed divergent opinions on whether the governor was fit enough to resume state duties.
Suntai, Tsokwa added, must come out and address the people of the state before their elected representatives, adding that his failure to do so means he is not fit to run the affairs of the state and that the House would not hesitate to grant him leave to go back abroad for further treatment.
Earlier in the day, Majority Leader of the House, Hon. Joseph Albasu Kunini, had confirmed to some select journalists that Suntai had transmitted a letter to the assembly and consequent upon that, he had resumed as governor.
He said the assembly could not consider the letter because Tsokwa and his deputy, Hon. Tanko Makarfi, had absconded and gone into hiding, adding that they mandated him to address the press on the matter.
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