The Supreme Court has sack the acting governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Garba Umar from office.

He was sacked in his capacity as the Deputy Governor of the state.

Recall that Garba was appointed the Deputy Governor following the impeachment of the former deputy governor of state, Sani Abubakar Danladi.

Danladi however challenged the impeachment at the state’s high court, but the court in its judgment of March 19, 2013 upheld the impeachment, a decision which the Court of Appeal, Yola equally upheld in its judgment of July 19, 2013.

He filed an appeal asking the court to set aside earlier decisions by the Court of Appeal, Yola and the Taraba State High Court, which affirmed his impeachment. challenging his impeachment by the state’s House of Assembly.

But ruling on the matter on Friday, the Supreme Court set aside the decision of the lowers courts, stating that due process was not followed in the impeachment of Danladi.

Details later…