The Supreme Court, yesterday, voided the impeachment of the Deputy Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Sani Abubakar by the State House of Assembly.

In an unanimous judgement, a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court held that he was illegally removed from office on the recommendation of a “Kangaroo panel”.

It ordered the appellant to resume his duties as the Deputy Governor of Taraba State forthwith.

Stressing that the appellate was denied fair hearing, the Supreme Court said it was convinced that the the seven-man panel that purportedly investigated allegations that the Deputy Governor divertee funds earmarked for Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, to his private school, Yagai Academy, “merely played out a script previously prepared and handed over to the panel”.

Credit: Vanguard Nigeria