The Senior Special Assistant on Political Matters to Kogi State Deputy Governor, Hon. Honorius Aromeh has declared that efforts to paint Elder Simon Achuba black by Hon. Edward Onoja in order to win the support of Ibaji people will fail.
Aromeh made this known while reacting to allegations of fraud and disloyalty leveled against Achuba by Governor Yahaya Bello’s Chief of Staff during a recent town hall meeting in Onyedega.
Onoja, during the town hall meeting, alleged that Achuba has been collecting kick backs from government contractors and is solely responsible for the under-development of Ibaji local government area of the state. He described the embattled deputy governor as an ‘enemy within’.
Speaking with newsmen in Lokoja, Aromeh described Onoja’s allegations as outbursts of a sinking man. He urged Onoja to go for psychiatric evaluation.
According to Aromeh, the comments made by Onoja, clearly portrayed him as a man with the spirit of lying, and wondered why a person in the capacity of the governor’s aide would sit in public to derogate the office of the Deputy Governor by formulating lies all in an attempt to cover inadequacies of a government.
He added that the CoS was telling the world that the present government has failed.
“Who was the contractor that alleged that the Deputy Governor collected kick-back. Was it because the Deputy Governor also collected kick-back that Bassa road is not completed. Was it because the Deputy Governor collected kick-back that roads in the Western and Central Senatorial Districts are not done. Was it because the deputy governor collected kick back that made projects ongoing to be inconclusive, and why the government cannot commission a project in three years, while workers and pensioners are not being paid salaries and pension for between 30 and 35 months”.
He described as a blatant lies the allegation that the deputy governor tried creating disaffection between the Attah Igala and the state government, pointing out that, “ The Attah Igala is a father to the deputy governor and all their discussions at all time centres on the growth of Igala land.”
He noted that the deputy governor is not aware of any committee investigating him because he has not been found wanting in the discharge of his duties, saying the efforts to paint Achuba black by Onoja in order to win the support of Ibaji people will fail.
According to Aromeh, the people of Ibaji LGA are angry with the present administration for not able to fix the road to Onyedega after the flood, describing the action of Onoja as an attempt to score cheap popularity, by calling the deputy governor unprintable names.
