Trouble in Taraba: The theatre of the absurd over Suntai

Date: 01-09-2013 9:10 am (10 years ago) | Author: Abraham Dickson
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The return, last Sunday, of Governor Danbaba Suntai, a pharmacist and politician, to Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, which he has been governing since year 2007, has thrown the state into turmoil, and broken the cord that once bound politicians in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, into camps – those for and against the governor and his Deputy, Garba Umar, who has been acting since his boss  was involved in an  air crash on  October 25, 2012. While Suntai’s supporters insist he is hale and hearty and capable of resuming work, his opponents have resisted the governor’s  resumption of office, arguing that he is not fit enough to rule over them. This report presents the details.

The stage appears set for a prolonged personality clash in Taraba State going by the political drama that is unfolding in the state. Not many are surprised though. As Governor Danbaba Suntai was being supported out of the aircraft that conveyed him from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to Jalingo that bright Sunday afternoon, it was all too clear to those who had assembled to receive him back to a state he had missed for over ten months, that he was a man of sorrow, writhing in deep pains and gnashing his teeth.

All the same, hordes of the governor’s supporters, friends, family and political associates erupted in unbound excitement, pouring over themselves and spilling over every available space at the tarmac of the medium-sized landing field and routes leading to and from the airport. In their bliss, the supporters failed to take cognisance of the simple fact that a man said to have fully recovered from the severity of the injury sustained in the air crash barely managed to ease out of the plane.

The jubilation also robbed the Suntai men from noticing the pain and tears in his eyes, as the band that went to bring him out of the jet tried to lift him from the back. As the aides carried him, the sharp pains apparently intensified and he screamed, twisting his face momentarily and his carriers halted the lifting for a while apparently to mitigate the twinge.

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- winace at 1-09-2013 11:36 AM (10 years ago)
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Hmmmm na wa o. Clash of d titans
Posted: at 1-09-2013 11:36 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- Toks-E at 2-09-2013 04:40 AM (10 years ago)
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Hissss

Posted: at 2-09-2013 04:40 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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