A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has declared the purported removal of Simon Achuba as the deputy governor by the state House of Assembly as illegal, null, void and of no effect.
The Court also declared that the subsequent nomination of Edward Onoja and his inauguration as the deputy governor as replacement for Mr Achuba, did not follow due process.
Joined in the suit as defendants are the House of Assembly, the 25 members of the Assembly, the state governor, Chief Judge of the state and Mr Onoja. He held that the onus to produce the remaining volumes of the report, purported to have indicted the former deputy governor, rested with the defendants adding that they failed to prove.
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