Plateau State in Nigeria Emmanuel Go’ar is a Nigerian politician who was speaker of the

Plateau State Plateau is a northern states of Nigeria, Nigerian state. It is located in the north-central geopolitical zone of Nigeria and includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau. Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and Tourism". Th ...

Assembly in

Jos Jos is a city in the North-Central region of Nigeria. The city has a population of about 900,000 residents based on the 2006 census. Popularly called "J-Town", it is the administrative capital and largest city of Plateau State. The city is situ ...

from April 2007 until he was

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in February 2009. The impeachment was related to a struggle between President

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and

Governor,

Jonah Jang Jonah David Jang (born 13 March 1944) is a former Nigerian military officer and politician who served as the senator representing the Plateau North senatorial district from 2015 to 2019. He previously served as the governor of Plateau State f ...

over a sectarian crisis in Jos, the Plateau State capital. Emmanuel Go’ar was elected to the Plateau State Assembly in 2007 as the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and made Speaker of the House. In November 2007, his election was nullified on the basis that the ballots omitted the logo of the rival Democratic People's Party (DPP), but he retained his seat during the subsequent appeal process. In March 2008, the Plateau State House of Assembly gave governor Jonah Jang the power to appoint caretaker committee chairmen for local councils. The governor planned to swear in Peoples Democratic Party candidates for the council positions. The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties took a protest letter to Emmanuel Go’ar as Speaker of the Assembly. The police sealed the premises of the

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(ANPP) because of its plans to demonstrate against the decision. In October 2008, Emmanuel Go'ar read a letter from governor Jonah Jang asking the House of Assembly to dissolve the caretaker local government committees, to be followed by elections. In December 2008, following riots during the council elections in which over 300 people died, the house of Assembly passed a resolution signed by Emmanuel Go’ar that called for tolerance between Christians and Muslims in the state and praised the Federal and the Plateau State governments for their prompt intervention in forestalling the spread of the crisis. In January 2009, after 26 suspected mercenaries arrested in Plateau State were transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, Emmanuel Go'ar said the house was setting up the committee to conduct an investigation into the crisis and to correct defects in the local electoral laws, if any. Go'ar was impeached in February 2009 after 17 of the 24 members of the Assembly signed a petition alleging that he was incompetent, although he remained a member of the Assembly. After his impeachment, Go'ar was replaced as speaker by Istifanus Caleb Mwansat. In April 2009, the appellate court dismissed Go'ar's appeal against the November 2007 ruling that nullified his election. However, he won the re-run election in June 2009. As a strong supporter of Governor Jonah Jang, Go'ar's reelection meant that a faction in the Plateau State assembly considering impeaching the governor lacked the necessary 2/3 majority.

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