Adamawa Acting Gov meets Jonathan, insists Nyako was impeached for looting the state

Adamawa State acting governor Ahmadu Fintri on Monday met with President Goodluck Jonathan in his capacity as the state chief executive, and insisted that the former governor had to be impeached because he stole a lot of money belonging to the state.

Speaking to State House correspondents after meeting with the president, Fintri said he came to see the president who is the leader of the country to brief him on the situation in Adamawa in his capacity as the acting governor.

'We are into confidence building, having removed Nyako and the destruction of infrastructure and moral of our people. We have gone into building of confidence. We are trying to pay our salaries - salaries of workers - because, for months, he has not paid their salaries. That is what we are doing now.

 'Nyako is not an opposition man. He only stole the mandate of the PDP into the APC. How did the president get involved in this local issue in Adamawa? The man has stolen our money. That is the bottom line of it.

 'You saw the allegations and they have been proven by the panel; so that cannot be the reason why we removed the man. There were even so many other issues that we could not bring as part of the allegations that informed his removal.

'But definitely as a PDP man that has taken over as acting governor in Adamawa State, I have to say that I brought back to my party the stolen mandate by the former governor,' he said.