The National Working Committee (NWC) of the party took the decision to suspend him at its 338th meeting held on Wednesday, which extensively discussed the state of the party across the nation.
A communique issued at the end of the meeting said the repeated breaches and disregard to the party’s constitution by Wamakko, were also discussed.
According to the communique signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, “the NWC notes that on several occasions, Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko had ignored invitations and lawful directives of the NWC in this regard and has continued to show complete apathy to the affairs of the party and contempt to an organ of the party.
“Consequent upon the refusal of the governor to honour yet another invitation by the NWC to appear before it today, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 without any reason, the Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 57 (3), 57 (7), 58. 1(c ),(h), (f) and 59 (1),(2), hereby suspends the Executive Governor of Sokoto State, Dr. Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as a member of the party and refers the matter to the appropriate disciplinary committee of the party.”
The party added that the governor’s suspension is in furtherance of the determination of the leadership of the party to enforce discipline at all levels within the party.
Meanwhile, as the Northern State Governors’ Forum (NSGF) meets in Kaduna today, the Bauchi State governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, has vowed never to return to the forum until it declared that it had reneged on its earlier agreement, chiding the members that they are hypocrites.
Governor Yuguda also reiterated that he had withdrawn his membership of the NSGF because he could no longer work with people who could not be trusted.
Governor Yuguda, who spoke on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa programme monitored in Kaduna, said “it is not a must that one must be a member of the NSGF, it is just that one finds it necessary because issues about the North are being discussed, but things should be done in unison. But what we are doing must be done accordingly; we should not be in politics to be led astray, we should do things with the fear of One Allah.
“Allah enjoined us not to betray trust, not to be hypocritical to one another, there is a verse on hypocrites from Allah and so I can’t be among hypocrites, I won’t do that.”
To make real his threat, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) of Bauchi State was conspicuously absent during the meeting of SSGs from the northern states at the General Hassan Usman Katsina House, Kaduna, on Wednesday, preparatory to the NSGF’s meeting today.
However, contrary to insinuations that the governors would meet over the backlash of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) election and the controversy it had generated, the SSG of Niger State, Saidu Ndako Idris, said their meeting in Kaduna sought for the continued cooperation that had always being part of the forum.
According to him, “you will be there to guide and assist to make sure that we work in unity, progress and peace of the North and Nigeria in general. Meetings we are having today are normal meetings of the Northern State Governors Forum, which is aimed at addressing issues that affect the northern part of this country and the essence is just to see to the socio-political and economic growth of the nation.”
Meanwhile, the steps taken by the Yuguda to leave the NSGF has continued to generate controversy, as some indigenes of the state condemned the action, saying the state would now lack representation in the NSGF.
They said matters affecting the region would now be discussed without the state having any input in the discussions.
A chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state, Nasiru Darazo, claimed that “if it comes to issues of betraying trust, Governor Yuguda should be at the forefront, because the people of Bauchi State voted for him on the platform of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), but he betrayed them and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).”
The ACN chieftain alleged that it was the betrayal by Yuguda that led the people of Bauchi to the present state they found themselves, adding that the state would suffer from the action taken by the governor.
Reacting to Darazo’s allegation, Yuguda, in the radio programme, said “the likes of Malam Darazo does not know the workings of NSGF, which membership was voluntary.”
NGF: Show proof that I voted, Mimiko tackles Amaechi
Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Wednesday, challenged his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, to substantiate his claim that he (Mimiko) voted at the disputed NGF election by producing the video evidence of the claim, insisting that Amaechi could not take ecclesiastic refuge for his anti-democratic dispositions.
Reacting to Amaechi’s claim that he (Mimiko) voted at the election, Mimiko said Amaechi should not hide under religion to cover up his anti-democratic dispositions, insisting that nothing stopped Amaechi from proving to the world that he voted by using the same video he had been using to tell the public that there was an election.
“If Amaechi is saying I voted at the election, then I think he should prove it to the whole world that I did.
“I sincerely believe that a process must have led to the declaration of result contained in their few minutes video clip. That later part can’t come in isolation; I challenge him to show the entire proceedings, including where I voted,” he said.
Berating Amaechi for what he called his anti-democratic disposition, Mimiko, who is the vice chairman of the Jonah Jang-led NGF, said “Amaechi could not take ecclesiastic refuge for his undemocratic dispositions by dragging the church into the forum’s disputed election, as a way of covering up his anti-democratic tendencies, stating further that Nigerians have been deceived for too long.”
Mimiko accused Amaechi of what he termed betrayal of his colleagues.
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