{"id":730244,"date":"2019-10-24T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/24\/anyone-parading-himself-as-kogi-deputy-governor-is-an-impostor-simon-achuba\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:05:06","slug":"anyone-parading-himself-as-kogi-deputy-governor-is-an-impostor-simon-achuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/24\/anyone-parading-himself-as-kogi-deputy-governor-is-an-impostor-simon-achuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Parading Himself As Kogi Deputy Governor Is An Impostor: Simon Achuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_717985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717985\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-717985 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ac-600x323.jpg\" alt=\"Simson Achuba and new deputy governor of Kogi state\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-717985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Embattled Simson Achuba and new deputy governor of Kogi state, Onoja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the political drama happening in Kogi state which ushered in a new deputy governor, Edward Onoja, the impeached deputy governor of the state, Simon Achuba, has described him as illegal and calls for his immediate arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Channels TV, Achuba insisted that he remains the deputy governor of the state because his removal is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>He further added that since the case is already in court, it is wrong for anybody to be parading himself as the deputy governor until the court rules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0Pay Us Our Bursary Before Elections, Kogi Students Tell Yahaya Bello<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of being reinstated does not exist. I am the deputy governor and there\u2019s no other one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Simson Achuba and new deputy governor of Kogi state, Onoja Following the political drama happening in Kogi state which ushered in a new deputy governor, Edward Onoja, the impeached deputy governor of the state, Simon Achuba, has described him as illegal and calls for his immediate arrest. Speaking during an interview on Channels TV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Anyone Parading Himself As Kogi Deputy Governor Is An Impostor: Simon Achuba - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/24\/anyone-parading-himself-as-kogi-deputy-governor-is-an-impostor-simon-achuba\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Anyone Parading Himself As Kogi Deputy Governor Is An Impostor: Simon Achuba - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Embattled Simson Achuba and new deputy governor of Kogi state, Onoja Following the political drama happening in Kogi state which ushered in a new deputy governor, Edward Onoja, the impeached deputy governor of the state, Simon Achuba, has described him as illegal and calls for his immediate arrest. 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