September 20, 2014 
Signs have emerged that the "cabal" in Taraba State has perhaps overplayed in its farcical effort to restore brain-injured Governor Danbaba Suntai as the governor of the state. The cabal recently flew Suntai back to the state from London where he had been receiving additional treatment since June.
But the camp of the acting governor is not ready to let go of the power in their control.
But the camp of the acting governor is not ready to let go of the power in their control.
Consequently, in a bid to resolve the lingering dispute over the governor’s state of health, the Taraba State House of Assembly has constituted a five-man medical panel to determine Suntai’s fitness.
Despite his compromised mental capacity, a cabal close to the governor had tried to create the impression that Suntai was ready to resume duties as governor.
According to Sahara Reporters, former General TY Danjuma, who made billions of dollars in the oil sector, is the major source of funds for the small but powerful cabal, made up of the governor’s wife and other political cohorts in the state. The group, which is determined to wrest political power from the state’s acting governor, has rigged media interviews for the governor and released statements ostensibly authorized by Suntai's wife in its effort to portray him as mentally competent...
But two members of the state assembly told Sahara Reporters that the group will now be put in the position of proving in an open, transparent and incontrovertible manner that Suntai is physically and mentally fit to undertake the demanding duties of a governor.
The committee to determine Mr. Suntai’s medical fitness is headed by a neurosurgeon, Bello Bala Shehu, a former director at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Other members are Inusa Samaila, another professor, Peter Alabi, Shehu Sule, and the governor’s personal physician, Ahmed Kara.
A short statement released by the speaker of the Taraba State Assembly, Josiah Sabo Kente, said the decision to set up the committee was taken according to sections 189 (1)(b) and 189(4) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999.
Sahara Reporters learned that the speaker’s statement was written on September 13, 2014 but that members of the cabal had pressured the speaker not to publicize the move.
The committee to determine Mr. Suntai’s medical fitness is headed by a neurosurgeon, Bello Bala Shehu, a former director at the National Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Other members are Inusa Samaila, another professor, Peter Alabi, Shehu Sule, and the governor’s personal physician, Ahmed Kara.
A short statement released by the speaker of the Taraba State Assembly, Josiah Sabo Kente, said the decision to set up the committee was taken according to sections 189 (1)(b) and 189(4) of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999.
Sahara Reporters learned that the speaker’s statement was written on September 13, 2014 but that members of the cabal had pressured the speaker not to publicize the move.
It would be recalled that the governor had sustained serious physical and mental injuries in late October, 2012 when a plane he was piloting crash-landed while descending into Yola Airport in Adamawa State. Since the accident, Mr. Suntai has remained in poor health, with limited physical movement and visible mental handicaps, despite months of treatment in hospitals in Germany, the US, and the UK.
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