Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has ejected his deputy, Ahmed Musa Ibeto from his office at the Government House, Minna, directing him to relocate to ‘F’ Layout quarters, a public residential area about 1500 meters away from the government house premises
It was learnt that Ibeto’s relationship with his boss has been frosty since his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC in January.
An aide to the deputy governor, who does not want his name to be in print confirmed to our reporter that a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Sa’idu Ndako directed the deputy governor to relocate to the new office immediately.
The relocation letter that was issued last Friday gave the deputy governor until today to relocate to his new office.
According to the source, the deputy governor was asked to relocate because the state government wanted to effect renovation on the office of the deputy governor.
The source added that the new deputy governor’s office was not habitable as the new office lacks air conditioners facilities, standby generator, provision of potable water and that the room size to serve as his office could not even accommodate his furniture not to talk of other materials.
He added that, already, the office of the deputy governor has complained to the state government that the renovation work carried out on the new office was poorly done.
When contacted, the Deputy Governor, Alhmed Musa Ibeto said that he travelled out of Minna and that he was yet to confirm the authenticity of the letter directing him to relocate from government house.
However, the Chief Press Secretary to the State Governor, Israel Ebije dismissed the claim of ejection of the deputy governor by his boss, explaining that due to general renovation at Government House, Ibeot was duly informed to relocate to an accommodation to enable renovation works in his office.
He said, “As you know, renovation works on the protocol department has just been completed and it is the turn of the building of the deputy governor’s office. It is not true that the deputy governor was ejected from his office.’’
