Alhaji Sani Abubakar was impeached following the adoption of the report of the committee set up to investigate allegations of misconduct levelled against him.
Twenty members, representing over two thirds of the 24 member House of Assembly voted in favour of the impeachment.
However, three members, Hon. Joseph Albasu Kunini, Hon. Aminu Umar and Hon. A. Juguilde from Lau, Jalingo and Gembu constituencies, were, however, absent from the emergency sitting.
The impeached Deputy Governor was found guilty of all three allegations levelled against him.
The Deputy Governor had been accused of diverting a Millennium Development Goals project to his private school, Yagai Academy, which houses his other business ventures like Yagai Water, Yagai Printing Press and Yagai Restaurant, acts which the house of assembly described as “gross misconduct.”
The house of assembly said locating the MDG ICT Centre and sinking motorised boreholes in Yagai Academy were unacceptable, as the school was his private venture and members of the public could not access them.
They also alleged that Mr Danladi used his influence to acquire “a large expanse of land in Jalingo on which he built Yagai Academy (together with all other multi million naira business ventures sited therein like Yagai Water, Yagai Printing Press and Yagai Restaurant), an institution which is worth about N1 billion.
The lawmakers said his total emoluments as a deputy governor could not justify such investments, adding that he had breached the code of conduct for public office-holders which requires that he shows transparency in the act of governance.
He was also accused of undue interference in the postings and transfers of indigenes of his local government area, Karim Lamido, and working against the interests of other stakeholders of the local government area.
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