AHEAD of the planned impeachment of Governor Umaru Al Makura of Nasarawa State and the eventual takeover by his deputy, Mr. Luka Barau, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has reportedly barred Barau from seeking governorship election in the 2015 poll.

A source said it aimed at preventing the yet to be governor from using his office to seek re election and thus scuttling the chances of the Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku and Senator Solomon Ewuga, representing Nasarawa North at the Senate.

Maku and his erstwhile godfather, Ewuga have since declared their ambitions to vie for the state governorship seat in the coming general election.

The trio are from Nasarawa North axis of the state which has been angling to produce the governor of the state, since the return of democratic rule in 1999.

Besides, PDP resolved that the Speaker, Musa Ahmed, representing Nasarawa Constituency be elevated to deputy governor, while the deputy speaker, Elisha Agwadu, representing Obi II Constituency, be automatically made to take over as the new Speaker.

These were all the deals that were allegedly sealed before members of the Assembly under the party’s platform, accepted to proceed with the impeachment process against the governor.

The legislators were said to have earlier resisted the persuasions of the party chieftains from the state for the impeachment of the governor, arguing that if it was carried out, the deputy governor, apart from being the biggest beneficiary, would bank on his office and incumbent power to seek and win a fresh election to continue in office beyond 2015.

Members of the state Assembly had reportedly argued that if they must impeach Al Makura, then they must be allowed to take the same path in Adamawa State, where the deputy governor was made to resign, before the impeachment of Governor Tanko Al Makura so that the Speaker can assume the position of Acting Governor for the period of three months before a substantive governor to be elected through a by election takes over.

Sources at some of the meetings held in both Lafia and Abuja, preceding the impeachment notice on the governor, told Vanguard that the resolution was that the deputy governor will only complete the 10 months left of Al Makura’s tenure without seeking re election to the same office.