For family and relatives of the ailing Taraba State governor, Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, this year’s Christmas is going to be a gloomy one.
According to the bedridden governor’s only surviving uncle, Pa Timothy Mai Komo, the absence of Suntai is not only affecting the immediate family but the entire Bali local government.
He said: “You see, we are missing our son. If he were well, you would have seen cows being slaughtered in this house for Christmas celebration.”
Pa Timothy added that Suntai is a unbiased man, who doesn’t discriminate his kinsmen on the basis of religion.
“He (Governor Suntai) doesn’t discriminate among us. He distributes cows to us during festivities. During Christmas, Governor Suntai will send me a cow. But as you can see we don’t have any cow to slaughter for Christmas. We would have started celebrating if he were around. We’re missing dearly him,” he said.
“Everybody here is missing him. He has done a lot to all of us. If not because of this tragic incident…you can see that everywhere is quiet because we are all sad,”
When asked about the governor’s health and how they get information about him, he said: “we get to know about the governor’s state of health through his ADC in Jalingo.”
“We are also being briefed on his state of health by his brother Babangida and his wife. We’re still praying for him.”
Another kinsman of the governor, Alhaji Sule Musa Suntai said that the whole community had been moody since the governor was involved in plane crash.
“He has been very dear to us right from his days as chairman of Bali local government. He did so many things to us. He brought development to our village; he secured admission for our children, built roads, schools, police station, hospitals for us,” he said.
It would be recalled that Governor Suntai has been in a German hospital, since November receiving treatment due to injuries he sustained when a small aircraft, Cessna 208, he was piloting crash-landed about 30 miles to the Yola airport in Adamawa State.
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