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JUST IN: Supreme Court Sacks Taraba Acting Governor, Reistates Impeached Deputy Governor

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The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday, November 21, 2014  sacked the acting governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar and ordered the immediate reinstatement of the former Deputy Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Sanni Danladi, who was impeached by the state House of Assembly in October 2012.

Umar has been piloting the affairs of the state due to the ill health of Governor Danbaba Suntai following a plane crash.

The Supreme Courts judgement is unconnected with Umar’s position as acting governor of the state, rather  it is about his emergence as deputy governor following the impeachment of the former deputy governor of state, Sani Abubakar Danladi.

Danladi never accepted his sack. He challenged it at a high court and the court of appeal, both of which ruled against him on March 19, 2013, and July 19, 2013, respectively, saying his impeachment was constitutional.

In a unanimous judgment, 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, noting that the impeachment panel failed to hear Danladi and snubbed his court papers which he served on it to challenge its composition.

Justice Sylvester Ngwuta who delivered the lead judgment set aside the judgments of both the Court of Appeal and the Taraba State High Court, which had dismissed Danaladi’s suit.

The Supreme Court has overruled the judgement of the lower courts on the grounds that due process was not followed in the impeachment of Danladi.

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