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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