Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako on Friday appeared before the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party at the party headquarters in Abuja.
Sources say the NWC had summoned him on Wednesday over the outcome of last Saturday’s Local government chairman and councillor’s elections in Adamawa state.
The national publicity secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, told journalists after the meeting that Nyako was invited to clarify some issues bothering on party affairs in his state.
The summon may have been influenced by the party’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, who is yet to forgive the Governor for his refusal to support the former during the race to the party’s election which produced Tukur as the Chairman. That single episode has since led to a discord between both men.
The present face-off however is that Tukur was angry that none of his loyalists was among candidates who contested for the posts of local government elections. All the posts was swept by candidates nominated by Nyako who has a wide grassroots support.
At the meeting held at the Wadata Plaza in Abuja, the Governor it was learnt repeatedly told the committee that he had done nothing wrong as laid down rules by the party and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were followed.
At the end of the three hours’ meeting, the Governor while briefing newsmen said: “Of course the election stands. The result of the election is not determined by the party. It is determined by the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC).”
On controversy between himself and the party on the local government election candidates, Nyako replied by saying “Whatever we had to do was done in the best interest of the party. I can assure you that it will not become a problem when we want to do it, because whatever we had to do has to be in the best interest of the party and our state.”
A bird in the know squealed that the battle between Tukur and Nyako,who are both indigenes of the state, will not end soon as the chairman among other things desires to install one of his sons, Awwal, as Adamawa governor in 2015.
Meanwhile, the governor has sworn to block the aspiration as he too was grooming a successor.
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