KOGI: Gov Bello should be held responsible if anything happens to me, Dep Gov cries out

Kogi State Deputy Governor, Simon Achuba, has alleged that the Governor Yahaya Bello was after his life and called on the police to save him.

Achuba claimed that Gov. Bello had sent gunmen to attack him, while calling on President Muhammadu Buhari, the Inspector General of Police, Department of State Services, and the Army to come to his aid.

The Deputy Governor made these allegations during a press briefing held at his residence in Lokoja, the state capital, on Thursday.

Achuba told newsmen that information at his disposal revealed that Governor Bello has mobilized gunmen to attack him.

He said: “Bello should be held responsible if anything happens to my life. I am appealing to President Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police to beam their searchlight on Kogi state as a result of Governor Bello’s alleged gunmen activities in the state”

He also stressed that “You cannot be a governor of the people and killer of the people as Bello is exhibiting”.

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On the claim of the Kogi state government that he has been paid all his entitlements to date, Achuba debunked the claim, describing it as false, and threatened court action to get his alleged two years unpaid salaries and allowances settled without further delay.

“As a deputy governor, I have staff whose salaries come under my office including mine and other allowances and impress to run the office since 2017.

“The governor refused to pay. The issue of salaries is critical and not about me as labourers deserve their wages” Achuba affirmed

“My monthly salary for instance as a deputy governor is N385,000. How can I run my office with this kind of pay without impress in the last two years?” he asked.

The deputy governor admonished his boss to always see himself as a servant of his people and not master by being humanitarian in all his actions and inactions in the administration of the state.

He explained that his continued rift with his boss had nothing to do with non-performance on his part as been alleged, but because of his disenchantment with the bad governance of the state by Bello which has inflicted endless untold hardship on the people of the state.

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