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Kogi State House of Assembly has debunked speculations making the round of an alleged plot to impeach the State Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba, Fresh Angle International can report.
Several reports emerged that the Kogi State Deputy Governor is having a running battle with his Boss, Governor Yahaya Bello. The reports claimed that efforts by traditional rulers and some prominent political stakeholders in the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state to save his job failed to yield positive result.
Our Kogi State Correspondent gathered that Elder Achuba has been out of official circulation since the beginning of the year, with his salary, that of his wife, his imprest, light and water supply to his office allegedly stopped and disconnected.
According to some sources, the embattled Kogi Deputy Governor is currently under pressure to resign.
Briefing journalist shortly after today’s (Thursday November 1) plenary in Lokoja, the Kogi State House of Assembly Chief Whip, Honourable Victor Adewale Omofaye described the speculation as unfounded and shocking.
The Ijumu lawmaker while noting that the alleged rumors to impeach the State Deputy Governor emanated from the disruption of Tuesday’s sitting by one of its members, emphasized that the internal wrangling that ensued between members which led to the untimely termination of the House proceeding was purely legislative business.
Omofaye maintained that, the House was actually deliberating on a bill for a law to provide for the management of funds of Kogi State House of Assembly and for related matters, 2018, which did not go down with some members who thought they were not carried along before the bill was put under debate.
He said, "It came to the notice of the House that there are speculations making the round on what happened some days back in the Kogi State House of Assembly. Precisely, we are aware of a publication by some news media that the House is carrying out some impeachment process against the State Deputy Governor Elder Simon Achuba.
To us, it is coming as a shock. There have never been anything like that. We want to set the record straight that, there have never been anything like that and it is a mere rumor which should be discarded by the general public”.
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