Yahaya Bello is after my life – Achuba

Kogi State deputy governor, Simon Achuba, has alleged that Governor Yahaya Bello is planning to send gunmen to assassinate him.

While addressing the media on Thursday, August 1, 2019, Achuba accused Bello of mobilising gunmen to hunt him down.

He said, “I want the police, SSS, IGO to know that if anything should happen to me, my family and aides, the governor should held responsible,” he said.

He called on President Muhammadu Buhari to pay attention to what is going on in the state, as it prepares for the November 16 governorship election.

The rift between Achuba and Bello gained the attention of the public after the deputy governor wrote a notice urging the governor to pay the accumulated sum of N819,709,980 owed to his office.

The sum is the accumulated statutory allocations which include hotel bills, pledges, travel allowances and outstanding monthly impress and salaries which has been withheld from the deputy governor’s office for the past two years.

In the letter, dated July 17, 2019, he accused Bello of refusing to give approval for the release of funds for the smooth running of his office.

Achuba warned that failure to grant his request for the withheld allocations, would force him to seek redress in the National Industrial Court.

The deputy governor met Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, last week, he told the media his relationship with Bello is “not very smooth” and not what it is supposed to be.

He also said there were ongoing discussions to resolve the issues between them.