Taraba Speaker Resigns Despite Gov’s Denial Of N200m Impeachment Plot

By Emmanuel Aziken

The Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Peter Diah has unceremoniously resigned his position. The Speaker broke the news to journalists in Jalingo on Sunday night saying that he would give his reasons on Monday.

The Speaker’s resignation came in the face of earlier claims of an orchestrated campaign by operatives of Governor Darius Ishaku to force out the two-term Speaker from office.

News reports last week had alleged a plot allegedly funded by the governor with up to N200 million to force out the Speaker.

The governor, however, strongly denied the claims on Friday denouncing the news reports as malicious and untrue.

In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Bala Dan Abu the governor had said: “The article made spurious claims to the effect that Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku was the sponsor of that so-called impeachment plot and that he had committed N200 million Naira public funds to it.

“Nothing can be more untrue. It is yet another wicked and malicious attempt to cause confusion and conflict in the relationship between the executive and legislative arms of government in the state on the one hand and governor Ishaku and Peter Diah, his political godson, on the other.”

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