The Acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar, has said that a cabal surrounding the ailing Governor, Danbaba Suntai, is holding him hostage in their bid to hold onto power to the detriment of his health.
His Special Assistant, Media, Mr. Aaron Artimas, said that the cabal was also thinking and acting for the ailing governor because he was not capable of doing so himself.
“Suntai returned from treatment abroad and he is still in Abuja because these people are the ones thinking for him. It is those who want power that are looking up to him as the solution to their immediate problem. The truth must be told one day because no matter how long they continued to hold him and shield him from the people of Taraba State, they are still answerable to Tarabans, who elected him.
“The government, which he heads, has been supporting him financially, materially and morally. All mortals are susceptible to falling sick at any time, including death and the people around Danbaba should allow him to recover fully and he needs all the rests to do that.
“The government has continued to foot his medical bills 100 per cent and take care of his family 100 per cent. Whatever they tried to do will not stand the test of time because you cannot continue to hide the truth. We cannot shy away from our responsibility to Danbaba as the duly elected governor of Taraba State. After being governor, Danbaba still has a long time to live and they should just allow him to live life to the fullest,” he said.
But the pro-Suntai group, in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, Ezekiel Gambo, said that since Suntai’s ailment, the acting governor had spent huge funds on a relentless media campaign against his benefactor; from photo cropping to outright falsehoods.
According to their statement, “Right now, a rattled Umar, who sees power slipping from his quivering hands, is getting desperate sponsoring all sorts of attack against the governor. He has for instance, said he was blocked from seeing his boss at the airport and that this could only mean that the governor is not medically fit.
“But the truth is that he couldn’t see his boss on the grounds of principles. The handlers of Suntai rightly reasoned that for a deputy who just last Wednesday mandated the speaker to start the impeachment process on his boss, coming to the airport to receive or welcome that same person smacks of dishonesty. Was Umar there to ascertain if he was justified in branding his boss a vegetable? Or was he there to cause confusion? Are friends and family members not right to be wary of a man who thinks and speaks only negatively of their benefactor? And even if it is true that his boss was indeed incapacitated, should Umar, a man Suntai never offended, go after him so ferociously?”
It could be recalled that Danbaba, who returned to the country from overseas treatment last Saturday, is still holed up in Abuja, more than 48 hours after he is expected to resume duties.
All hail Umar, the one man medical board, who has declared Danbaba unfit to rule. Desperado
Mr. Acting Governor, in Taraba State, Umar, are you forgetting the fulling of this titled you are called by?
Let everyone in the state determine what they want with their elected governor. Why are you the alpha and omega in determining the fate of your boss. Did you actually sponsor the sabotage that led to his plane crashing?
Your case sounds like that of a man invited to the dining table, who now held the spoon of the host in order that he might have all the meal to himself (greedy and wicked guest.) This is not to imply that the resources of the people of Taraba is meant to be squandered, what we are seeing here is such that you do not want to see this man back in office anymore. The story you made us believe then does not appear to be so now, the governor really looks fit in there.
Why were you sponsoring his impeachment from office. Let him and his physicians determine how much rest he needs to recuperate fully. Thanks be to you!
We have heard this your story too many a time.
It is so sad that you always have to project the image of your boss in such a bad light!