Kogi deputy governor’s impeachment illegal and undemocratic – Wada

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship
candidate for November 16 election in Kogi State
Musa Wada, has described impeachment of the
state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba, by the
State House of Assembly as illegal and
undemocratic.Wada stated this in a statement issued by the
Deputy Director, Public Communications Committee
of the PDP Campaign Council, Mr. Austin Okai, in
Lokoja, the state capital.
Wada said the state lawmakers set aside the report
of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry that investigated the
sundry allegations of gross misconduct leveled
against Achuba and exonerated him of any
wrongdoing.
The PDP governorship candidate said the
lawmakers’ action amounted “complete miscarriage
of justice.”
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He said: “The purported impeachment is
unacceptable, illegal, immodest, null and void. The
decision is a complete departure from the
recommendation of the panel that investigated the
allegations.”
Wada challenged the state government and the
lawmakers to make public the reports of the panel
constituted by the State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir
Ajanah, to investigate the allegations as part of the
process of impeachment.
The PDP candidate urged the state government not
to replace Achuba to avoid “wanton political
profligacy.”
He also described as haphazard, the decision of the
state government to swear in the governor’s former
Chief of Staff, Chief Edward Onoja, on Saturday, as
Achuba’s replacement.
He cautioned the state government against over-
heating the polity in the state. (NAN)