PDP set to replace Gov Suntai; inaugurates committee to determine the status of His office.

Mr. Suntai was seriously injured in October, 2012 when a small plane he was piloting from Jalingo crashed near the airport in Yola, the capital of Adamawa. The governor was trying to land the aircraft at the time of the accident.

Speaking to members of the seven-man committee in Abuja on Monday, the PDP’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, said the party decided to intervene in order to resolve the political situation created by Mr. Suntai’s accident. One of the tasks given to the committee was to discover and report the political repercussions among key stakeholders of the governor’s sickness and absence.

“Interact and establish the most effective approach to reduce to the barest minimum, the fears of all the contending interest in Taraba State,” Mr. Tukur told the committee members.

The PDP chairman added: “Fast track the process of constitutional adherence as it affects the current status of the office of the governor of Taraba State.

“Ensure that in all practical implications, the PDP Taraba emerge stronger and more united in responding to all the partisan challenges arising thereafter in the state.

“Consider and report any other matter that is, in the opinion of this committee, relevant in the resolution of the political condition of the state.”

Members of the committee are Hope Uzodinma, Ahmed Gulak, Shittu Mohammed, Bala Buhari, Richard King, Bolajoko Doherty, and Abubakar Garda, who is serving as secretary.