Taraba State: His Acting Excellency visits his ailing Excellency in Germany.

Acting governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar over the weekend

jetted out of the country to Germany on a get-well visit to governor of the State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai. This is coming just as the state chapter of Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) charged the State Commissioner of Information to ensure that citizens of the state are inundated with Suntai’s state of health, failure of which it would be compelled to mandate the State House of Assembly to invoke the provisions of section 189 of the 1999 Constitution as amended. Suntai was flown to Germany on October 27, 2012 for medical treatment after surviving a plane crash which occurred at Yola on the October 25, 2012 and has remained there since. This is the first time Alhaji Garba Umar, who was appointed deputy governor by Suntai on October 5, 2012 and was declared acting governor by the State House of Assembly on November 16, 2012 would be visiting Suntai in Germany since he was flown abroad and hospitalised. On the trip to Germany with the acting governor, who is scheduled to return to the country tomorrow, are his two wives and former permanent secretary, Government House administration, Mr. Denis O. Nev, who retired from service two weeks ago. Top government functionaries particularly the Speaker, Taraba State House of Assembly, Hon. Istifanus Gbana; Chief Judge of the state, Justice Josephine Tuktur and Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ambassador Emmanuel Njiwah, had earlier visited Suntai in Germany and just returned to the country few days back.