Supreme Court Sacks Taraba Acting Governor, Reinstates Impeached Deputy Governor

A 7 man panel The of Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday has nullified the impeachment of former Deputy Governor of Taraba state, Sani Abubakar Danladi, who was impeached by the state House of Assembly in October 2012.

The state's Acting Governor Garba Umar was appointed by ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai following Danladi's impeachment and that appointment has been nullified with the apex court's decision.

The Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar from was sacked in his capacity as the Deputy Governor of the state.

Danladi had challenged his impeachment at the state’s high court, but the court in its judgment of March 19, 2013 upheld the impeachment, a decision which the Court of Appeal, Yola equally upheld in its judgment of July 19, 2013.

He thereafter approached the Supreme Court asking it to set aside earlier decisions by the Court of Appeal, Yola and the Taraba State High Court.

In its decision, the apex court ordered for the immediate reinstatement of  Alhaji Sanni Danladi as the Deputy Governor of Taraba state.

The court held that the impeachment panel set up by the House of Assembly to investigate the allegations against Danladi violated his rights to fair hearing.

The impeachment panel was said to have gone ahead with its proceedings without hearing Danladi and recommended his impeachment, while the panel snubbed his court papers which he served on it 
to challenge its composition.

The court maintained that there apoearer to be a conspiracy between both the Taraba State House of Assembly and the "kangaroo" impeachment panel to frustrate Danladi and subsequently set aside the judgments of both the Court of Appeal and the Taraba State High Court, bith of which had earlier dismissed Danaladi's suit.
The apex court held that the two lower courts ought to have resolved the issue of fair hearing in favour of Danladi.

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