{"id":16981,"date":"2019-10-20T16:58:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2019-10-20T16:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:58:28","slug":"what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy","title":{"rendered":"What Dino Melaye said about impeachment of Yahaya Bello\u2019s Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that Achuba was on Friday impeached by the Kogi House of Assembly over allegations of gross misconduct leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing newsmen after the impeachment, Majority Leader of the House, Hassan Bello Abdullahi (APC-Ajaokuta), said the House received a report from a panel of inquiry and acted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullahi added that the House met, sat and deliberated on the recommendations of the panel to arrive at the conclusion, adding that with the impeachment of the Deputy Governor, justice had been served.<\/p>\n<p>But, reacting, Dino in a tweet on his official Twitter page, described the impeachment as a \u2018constitutional vandalism.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cIllegal removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kogi_State\">Kogi<\/a> Deputy Governor by the carry go House of Assembly after a clean bill of health by the panel is constitutional vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba. DAILY POST had reported that Achuba was on Friday impeached by the Kogi House of Assembly over allegations of gross misconduct leveled against him. Addressing newsmen after the impeachment, Majority Leader of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[34,1045,124,209],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-bello-abdullahi","tag-dino-melaye","tag-governor"],"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>What Dino Melaye said about impeachment of Yahaya Bello\u2019s Deputy - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba.\" \/>\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\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Dino Melaye said about impeachment of Yahaya Bello\u2019s Deputy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the impeachment of the state Deputy Governor, Elder Simon Achuba.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-20T16:58:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Dino-Melaye-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"336\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"What Dino Melaye said about impeachment of Yahaya Bello\u2019s Deputy\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-20T16:58:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\"},\"wordCount\":163,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/Dino-Melaye-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Bello Abdullahi\",\"Dino melaye\",\"Governor\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-dino-melaye-said-about-impeachment-of-yahaya-bellos-deputy\",\"name\":\"What Dino Melaye said about impeachment of Yahaya Bello\u2019s Deputy - 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