The Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, Governor’s Forum, has dismissed the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Barrister Mahdi Aliyu-Gusau as illegal and immoral.
Aliyu Gusau was impeached on February 22, 2022, by the Zamfara House of Assembly over allegations of abuse of office, non performance of his duties, and mismanaged of funds.
However, not a few people believe the allegations were trumped up. They believe it was a question of giving a dog a bad name in order to kill it.
Aliyu-Gusau’s problem started when, on principles, he refused to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, with the Governor of the State, Bello Matawalle.
Reacting to the impeachment in a statement signed by its Director General, Hon CID Maduabum, the PDP Governors Forum said it was an affront to the rule of law, particularly, as there is a subsisting suit on the matter in Court.
Following is the full statement.
“The Zamfara State House of Assembly on Tuesday 22nd February, 2022, purportedly impeached the Zamfara Deputy Governor, His Excellency , Barr Mahdi Gusau on flimsy reasons.
“We condemn this naked and unconstitutional abuse of power.
It is immoral , perfidious and an affront to the rule of law for an illegally constituted House of Assembly to purport to oust a validly elected Deputy Governor, just because he towed the oath of honour and followed his oath of office by remaining faithful to those that elected him as a PDP Member.
“It should be noted that the entire Zamfara House of Assembly decamped from PDP to APC without any form of division in PDP and therefore should lose their seats as required by the Constitution. Such an unconstitutional body has no power or mandate to impeach the Zamfara Deputy Governor.
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