MURTALA Hamman-Yero Nyako, former governor of Adamawa State and retired Naval Vice Admiral, 74, August 27. Born in Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa State, he attended Mayo-Belwa Elementary School, 1952; Yola Middle School, 1955, and commenced his secondary school education, 1958.

Nyako joined the Royal Nigerian Navy in June 1963 as an officer cadet, commenced his officer training at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England, in September 1963, was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in September 1965, and completed his initial naval training in September 1965. He served in the Navy, at one time being military governor of Niger State, and being appointed Chief of Naval Staff in December 1989.

Nyako entered politics in 2006. He was elected Governor of Adamawa State in April 2007. In February 2008 the Election Petition Appeal Tribunal annulled his election, alleging electoral malpractices.  A fresh election was run, and Nyako was re-elected with a landslide victory.  In 2012 after the Governor’s first tenure, he ran for a second term and was once again re-elected. On July 15, 2014, the governor was impeached as the state House of Assembly deliberated on the report of an investigative panel that probed allegations of financial misconduct against him. The report found the governor guilty of all the 16 allegations of gross misconduct levelled against him by the House. On 11 February 2016 the Federal Court of Appeal declared the impeachment null and void and ordered that all his entitlements accrued from the date of impeachment be paid to him. The judgment was upheld on 16 December 2016 by the Supreme Court of Nigeria but declined to reinstate him.

– Aug 24, 2017 @ 11:30 GMT