Kogi State Deputy Governor, Simon Achuba, has said that the money being owed him by the Yahaya Bello government is over N800m.
There is no love lost between the two, leading to the seizure of his salaries and other entitlements.
Speaking in Abuja after a meeting with the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, in Abuja, he stated that it was who had been G sustaining him.
According to him, he is being owed N819, 709 980 in accumulated statutory allocations, which include travel allowances, hotel bills, pledges, and outstanding monthly impress and salaries.
“Well you know in life what sustains a man is God. So if your hope is in God, you will be very much alive. If you have money and don’t have God, you will be living like a dead person.
“But if you have God you can live, He is the one who provides to man. So if one source closes, God opens another source for you to live. Supposing I am not a Deputy Governor, won’t I be alive?”
Achuba also gave condition for supporting Bello’s second term ambition:
“When the time comes. There are issues to be put on table for discussion and these are the issues why I am here. When those issues are settled you will see us flying again, politics is like that.”
