{"id":16930,"date":"2019-10-19T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16930"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:45:26","slug":"pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov","title":{"rendered":"PDP reacts to impeachment of Kogi Deputy gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday mocked the Kogi State Governor,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yahaya_Bello\"> Yahaya Bello<\/a> over his desperate bid of using \u201cunderhand measures to forcefully\u201d remove his Deputy, Hon. Simon Achuba.<\/p>\n<p>PDP, while reacting to Achuba\u2019s impeachment said Bello \u201cis now clinging on straws,\u201d adding that \u201chis days are numbered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the opposition said Achuba\u2019s impeachment confirmed that Bello has lost public trust and resorted to dirty politics.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ologbondiyan: \u201cOur party holds that by coercing the State House of Assembly against the<\/p>\n<p>deputy governor even when the State Judiciary Panel acquitted him of all allegations, Governor Bello only confirms that he has lost public trust and now desperately resorting to dirty politics and crafty methods for survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action of trying to remove the deputy governor via unconstitutional methods and in total disregard to the verdict of the judicial panel is, in itself, a gross misconduct and grave constitutional violation for<br \/>\nwhich the state assembly, as an institution, ought to have removed Yahaya Bello as the governor of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PDP, however, alerted that the \u201cnext victim of such underhand methods would be the State Assembly itself, which now appears to be on the way to being used to enact draconian rules to suppress and intimidate the people of Kogi State, since there is no way Yahaya Bello will win the November 16 election and return to office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt is, however, instructive to state that the action of the House of Assembly, in yielding to Yahaya Bello\u2019s antics, has further reduced Kogi state to a butt of jokes among compatriots in other states of our federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat it means is that Yahaya Bello can wake up tomorrow morning and shut down institutions of government, including the state legislature, the judiciary and even the civil service and become a law unto himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, whether the State House of Assembly has any morsel of courage left in its chamber to protect the state and her people or not, Governor Bello will surely face the judgment of the people on November 16, where he will be kicked out of office through the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also public knowledge that Yahaya Bello seeks to repress the deputy governor over the latter\u2019s decision to expose the impunity and corruption in the Bello administration which has brought so much<br \/>\nsuffering to the people of Kogi state in the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Nigerians expect is for Governor Bello to respond to the allegations by the deputy governor instead of this resort to bullying and attempts to remove him through unconstitutional method; a scheme that cannot stand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur apprehension is that Governor Bello, in his desperation to cling unto power, even when he has been rejected by the people, is now turning Kogi state into a state of \u201canything goes.\u201d We, therefore, call on all compatriots to condemn and resist the reprehensible actions of Governor Yahaya Bello.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria is a nation governed by law and nobody, no matter the desperation, should be allowed to turn her, or any part thereof, to a Banana Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday mocked the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello over his desperate bid of using \u201cunderhand measures to forcefully\u201d remove his Deputy, Hon. 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PDP, while reacting to Achuba\u2019s impeachment said Bello \u201cis now clinging on straws,\u201d adding that \u201chis days are numbered.\u201d In a statement by its spokesperson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,16],"tags":[209,65,615],"class_list":["post-16930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","tag-governor","tag-pdp","tag-yahaya-bello"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP reacts to impeachment of Kogi Deputy gov - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday mocked the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello over his desperate bid of using \u201cunderhand measures\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP reacts to impeachment of Kogi Deputy gov\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Saturday mocked the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello over his desperate bid of using \u201cunderhand measures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-19T15:45:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/kola.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"4206\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2804\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP reacts to impeachment of Kogi Deputy gov\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-19T15:45:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\"},\"wordCount\":528,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/10\/kola.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Governor\",\"PDP\",\"Yahaya Bello\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-reacts-to-impeachment-of-kogi-deputy-gov\",\"name\":\"PDP reacts to impeachment of Kogi Deputy gov - 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