Journalists were prevented from covering the inauguration of Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Simeon Achuba, in Lokoja on Tuesday.
Simon Achuba was on Tuesday, sworn in as the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, in Lokoja the state capital.
Achuba filled the vacuum in the deputy governorship position after Mr James Faleke refused to be Governor Yahaya Bello’s deputy.
Last year, Achuba defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) and he is a former Deputy Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly.
The journalists were prevented from entering the venue of the ceremony, the Banquet Hall of the Governor’s Office, by stern looking security agents.
Four of the journalists, who had entered the hall, were asked by the security agents to leave immediately.
The journalists, mostly correspondents of the various national media outfits, tried to explain their mission but the security agents, who claimed to be acting on instruction from above, refused to budge.
The newsmen had covered the screening and approval of Achuba by the Kogi State House of Assembly.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Strategy, Malam Abdulmalik Abdulkareem, and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo, could not be reached by Adamu Idako, the Chairman of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, to intervene in the matter.
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