In a move believed to be preceding the declaration of governor of Taraba state, Danbaba Suntai as incapacitated, the Taraba State Executive Council has directed the state House of Assembly to constitute a medical team that would ascertain the exact condition of his health.
The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Musa Adamu Tende, who addressed a press conference in Jalingo, the state capital on Wednesday, said the council directed the assembly to set up the panel in fulfillment of the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
He said, “The rumours going round after today’s executive council meeting that Suntai has been declared incapacitated by the council is not true. The council only wrote to direct the assembly to set up a medical team to ascertain his true state of health”.
Suntai, who has been receiving treatment in a London hospital, was involved in a plane crash on August 25, 2012, and had not resumed duty as governor of the state since then.
DailyPost recalls that Governor Suntai was on August 25, 2013 brought to Nigeria from the United States where he was receiving medication with his purported letter to the assembly informing it of his assumption of office.
This move threw the state into serious political crisis at that time.
The letter, which the assembly members described as forged, was rejected by the assembly which then mandated his deputy, Alhaji Garba Umar, earlier been declared the acting governor, to continue in that capacity until Suntai is fully recovered to assume office.
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