The controversy as to who will preside over Taraba State as governor was resolved on Tuesday, as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Fact-Finding Committee on the health condition of Gov. Danbaba Suntai of Taraba, declared him unfit and affirmed Alhaji Garba Umar as the Acting Governor of the state.
Briefing Journalists after about a two-hour close door meeting, the committee Chairman, Sen. Hope Uzodima, stated that the impasse had been resolved with all stakeholders including Suntai’s wife, Hauwa.
He said the Ag. Governor should from time-to-time be consulting with Suntai on major political issues in the state, while he (Suntai) continues to recuperate.
The committee chairman further stressed that the issue was a purely PDP in-house problem which, as a family, could be sorted out amicably.
It would be recalled that Suntai returned to the state on Sunday, Aug. 25, after 10 months of medical treatment abroad, following his involvement in a plane crash in October, 2012.
Uzodima’s committee, which was received at the Jalingo airport by the Acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar and many top government functionaries, visited Suntai briefly in his official residence.
Two parallel organs of governments were being run in the state before Tuesday’s resolution as three commissioners had complied with the purported dissolution of the State Executive Council.
The three commissioners had handed over their offices to the permanent secretaries of the ministries while four commissioners did not comply.
The Secretary to the State Government, the Chief of Staff, four commissioners loyal to Umar are occupying their offices following the acting governor’s statement asking the public to disregard the dissolution of cabinet.