Niger state Deputy Governor chased out of council meeting

The Deputy Governor of Niger state,Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto has been ordered to stop partaking in the state's executive council meeting for defecting to the All Progressive Congress,APC.
The governor also alleged that Ibeto called him a thief during one of his campaigns.
The source said that the governor in his opening remark before the commencement of the regular weekly state executive council meeting on Wednesday at Government House Minna, said he would not chair a meeting where the deputy was seated.
He thereafter asked the deputy governor to leave the council chambers because he (Ibeto) could use information gathered at such meetings against the PDP.
The deputy governor hurriedly left for his office and parked his valuables after Aliyu allegedly threatened to use the security agents against him.
But a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Israel Ebije, on Thursday said that the deputy governor was not chased out of the meeting.

Ebije said the deputy governor had sought a permission to stay away from the state executive council meetings and this was granted.