Taraba Justice Forum (TJF), an association of professionals from the state, yesterday asked supporters of ailing Governor Danbaba Suntai to accept the reality of his inability to resume work following reports of his alleged relocation to a rehabilitation centre.
The group says the inauguration of Alhaji Garba Umar as the substantive governor is thus inevitable under the circumstance and therefore calls for the invocation of Section 189 of the constitution.
The Forum described fresh reports coming from John Hopkins University Hospital in the United States as "a vindication" of its position on Suntai
The group in a statement by its President-General, Mr Daniel .A. Almukus insisted that Suntai's condition remains bad.
He said: "We have been vindicated in our calls for invocation of Section 189 of the 1999 Constitution to ascertain the state of health of the governor and commence process of confirmation of the acting governor as substantive governor of the state.
"When we issued our statement a week ago, we were called all sorts of names. Now the facts are out. The governor is medically incapacitated.
"It is time for his loyalists to give up and allow the constitution to prevail. This is how God destined Taraba political wind to blow and it is pointless resisting the will of God.
"We are not rejoicing at what happened to the Governor. We fully sympathise with the family and his friend, the Acting Governor. What we frowned at is the attempt by some clique to hoodwink the state.
"A governor is in a rehab and they keep on lying to us that he will soon be back. For how long are we going to allow this fraud to continue?"
They called for the application of section 189 of the constitution to resolve the issue.
