While the Adamawa state house of assembly is busy putting finishing touches to its attempt to impeach the incumbentgovernor Boni Haruna, our dear Boni is busy shedding tears before the Lord as Yakubu Gowon and other religious pretenders attempt to bribe God on his behalf.

The legislators had earlier served Boni with an impeachment notice for alleged gross misconduct and inability to perform the functions of office as demanded by the 1999 Constitution. Other honorables also accused the Governor of "anti-party" activities, an euphemism for any excuse to get rid of a sitting incumbent who has refused to play ball.
The issue however is not in the legitimacy of the alleged offences of the governor, rather it is the increasingly alarming manner that our "leaders" have chosen to respond to various allegations leveled against them. Rather than prove his critics wrong with proof of his 8 yr stewardship to the people of Adamawa state, Boni has chosen to distract us by shedding tears in the house of God. Yakubu Gowon and his ragtag army of hired prayer warriors promptly responded to Boni's crisis by holding a prayer service to "pray against his impeachment by the state house of assembly".

As at 2005, 6 yrs after Boni promised the people of Adamawa state the dividends of democracy, there are no good motorable roads, electricity supply is eratic, water supply is non-existent, medical services have collapsed, schools have since relocated to the shelter of trees with poorly equiped teachers and inadequate teaching materials. Yet Boni has taken the fight against his impeachment to the Lord in prayer. Pray, can Boni claim that the legislators do not have a valid reason to kick him out of office for failing the people he swore to protect? There are no viable industries in Yola, civil service is merely an opportunity for the governors friends to "come and chop", nothing works in Yola and yet Boni is busy pleading with God to spare him the ignominy of an impeachment.

If indeed Boni and his band of "prayer warriors" are sure his hands are clean, why has he refused to take the matter to the court of public oppinion? Let Boni tell us what he has spent the last 7 yrs doing for the people of Adamawa state then maybe we too can join hands in begging God to avert the sword of impeachment dangling over his head. Until then he should be rest assured that God is not listening to those who have slaughtered the future of the masses on the alter of greed and corruption.
Let him stop using crocodile tears and God's name to distract us from the most important question here.