Lawal said, “The defections of Gundiri and Marwa, the 2011 governorship candidates of ACN and CPC, respectively, to PDP has little or no effect on the fortunes of APC. This is because no notable member of the party followed them to PDP. On the contrary, the few rank and file members that followed them are trickling back.”
He maintained that majority of people in Adamawa State were angry with the way Nyako was removed from office by “people they know to possess no morality, who were driven purely by selfish motives and were also sponsored by selfish interests from outside the state.”
He alleged that the impeachment involved serial breaches of the constitution, saying PDP will suffer the backlash during the by-election.
The APC chieftain said the people of Adamawa State were fully aware that Nyako was ousted because of his stance on the failure of President Goodluck Jonathan to secure the people of the North-east against the rampaging Boko Haram insurgency.
“The trigger for this was the letter he wrote to the northern governors and the paper he presented in the USA on the security challenges facing the country. Admiral Nyako said things which every northerner had wanted to say but which no one had the courage to say. But being a general, he took the bull by horns and said it, damning all consequences. The impeachment was the price he had to pay.
“Today, Admiral Nyako is a hero to all northerners and, in particular, the people of Adamawa State. This by-election will be payback time for President Goodluck Jonathan and his minions in the PDP,” Lawal said.[eap_ad_4]
