Achuba reacts to swearing in of Onoja as Deputy Governor of Kogi State, calls him an Impostor.

Mr Simon Achuba who was impeached last week still insists that he is the Deputy Governor of Kogi State and as such any other person in that position is an impostor. He said this during an interview on channels television when asked if he wants to be reinstated or continue his relationship with the present administration he said, “The idea of being reinstated does not exist. I am the deputy governor and there’s no other one.

“Anybody who is parading himself as the Deputy Governor is completely an impostor and nothing more. As far as the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is concerned that person must be an imposter and when Law Enforcement Agents are effective, such person should have been arrested and kept in a dungeon for trial.”

“There can’t be two Deputy Governors in a state. There can only be one at a time. The only Deputy Governor that Kogi State has now is me. That the Chief Justice swore in somebody does not give it legality in any way. The action of the State Assembly and everyone who participated in the process will be out to test in court because we are in court already,” he said.

The Kogi State House of Assembly on Monday confirmed Mr Edward Onoja as the deputy governor of Kogi State. He was confirmed as deputy governor after he was screened by members of the House at the legislative chamber of the Assembly complex in Lokoja, the State capital.

He was subsequently sworn in by the Chief Judge of the State, Justice Nasir Ajana, as the Deputy Governor of Kogi State.