A High Court sitting in Lokoja has overturned the impeachment of Simon Achuba, former Kogi deputy governor by the State House of Assembly.

The presiding justice, Justice John Olorunfemi declared the action of the assembly as illegal, null and void.

In his judgment on Wednesday, Olorunfemi submitted that Achuba’s impeachment from office by the Assembly is a violation of the constitution and the subsequent nomination of Edward Onoja as the deputy governor, did not follow due process

Channelstv reports that the judge described the action of the Kogi State House of Assembly as a constitutional coup, hatched and executed in a democracy explaining further that the action is contrary to Section 188 subsection 8, a section that stopped the Assembly from further action having discovered that the former deputy governor was not found wanting by the panel.