Danladi was impeached following allegations of gross misconduct
The Taraba State House of Assembly has impeached Deputy Governor of the state, Sanni Abubakar Danladi.
Twenty out of the 24 members of the House voted for the impeachment, after they adopted the report of the judicial panel inaugurated to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against Danladi. Of the four other members, three were absent while the last abstained from the impeachment process.
Danladi had challenged the composition of the members of the panel, citing integrity issues, but the panel went ahead to pronounce him guilty of the allegations, which included diverting state government projects to locations where he had personal interest.
“By virtue of your being the deputy governor of Taraba State, you had easy access to the office of the Federal Government/World Bank?s Millennium Development Goals projects in the state and other state agencies. And in that capacity, therefore, you used your office and influence and caused to be diverted MDGs facilities and street-light projects to Yaggai Academy, a private school owned and operated by Yaggai Academy Limited, with you as the altar ego of the company and thereby denying the underprivileged members of the state access to and use of such facilities, and doing so contravenes the oath of office you sworn to,” a part of the statement of allegation read.
Another part read, “That you, Danladi, have demonstrated a clear lack of capacity and or a refusal to properly discharge the functions of your office and so doing, you have created disaffection, disharmony, favouritism and undue interference in the running of the government.
“Instead of working in harmony with stakeholders in your local council and the state, you have resorted to acts of incitement of the populace against the stakeholders with all the attendant negative consequences.”
