Impeachment proceedings against Deputy Governor are recipe for crisis, PDP warns Matawalle.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle over the State House of Assembly’s alleged undemocratic impeachment of the state’s Deputy Governor, Mahdi Aliyu Mohammed Gusau.

Governor Matawalle’s frantic move, according to the opposition party, is prompted by his understanding that the PDP mandate he allegedly handed to the APC is about to be recovered through legal processes and restored to the Deputy Governor.

Matawalle allegedly violated the requirements of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by “rashly shifting to the APC when there is no division in the party,” according to the PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba.

He added that “the illegal process of impeachment despite a subsisting order of the Federal High Court, Abuja in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/ 650/2021 portends grave implication for peace and security not only in Zamfara State but the entire North West region as well as the continued sustenance of democracy in our country.

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“Governor Matawalle should note that the people of Zamfara State are solidly behind the Deputy Governor, who enjoys large political following in the State as the custodian of the PDP mandate after Matawalle’s infamous defection to the APC. As such, any action against the Deputy Governor amounts to a direct assault on the will of the people which they will firmly resist, it added.

It also warned that any attempt to strip the Deputy Governor of the mandate of the people on the grounds of unfounded allegations is a recipe for a serious crisis that can result in the complete breakdown of law and order in the state.

PDP cautioned the Zamfara State House of Assembly not to allow itself be pitched against the people, adding that “Governor Matawalle must know that the people of Zamfara State cannot allow his frustration and ego to be exchanged for their mandate which is now embodied in the Deputy Governor.

The opposition party called on the Inspector General of Police to note “how Governor Matawalle, out of frustration has constituted himself into a security threat in Zamfara State and the entire North West region, where he is now threatening the lives of members of the PDP and other well-meaning citizens of Zamfara State.

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It alerted Nigerians of how Governor Matawalle has allegedly been hounding members of the Zamfara State Working Committee of the PDP particularly, our State Deputy Chairman, Prof. Kabiru Jabaka, who has been forced to relocate out of the State over threats to his life.

PDP urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to immediately call Governor Matawalle to order.