House Majority Leader, Abdullahi Bello, read a petition against Achuba during plenary on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.

The petition, signed by 21 out of the 25 lawmakers in the House, expressed displeasure with Achuba's recent conduct against the Kogi State government whom the deputy governor accused of financial misappropriation, non-performance, and other crimes.

"It is our belief that these actions and utterances of the deputy governor amounts to gross misconduct in the performance of the functions of his office," the petition read.

Citing section 188 of the 1999 constitution, Bello called on the House to commence an investigation into the allegations ahead of a possible impeachment.

House Speaker, Kolawole Matthew, agreed to the request of the petition and directed that Achuba be served an impeachment notice.

The deputy governor will have two weeks to respond to the allegations against him.

Achuba has been in the news of recent after he accused state governor, Yahaya Bello, of failing to pay an accumulated sum of N819,709,980 owed to him.

The sum is the accumulated statutory allocations which include travel allowances, hotel bills, pledges, and outstanding monthly impress and salaries which has been withheld from Achuba's office for the past two years.

In the letter, dated July 17, 2019, Achuba accused Bello of consistently refusing to give approval for the release of funds for the smooth running of his office.

Achuba warned that his request for the withheld allocations be granted within seven days, failure of which would force him to seek redress in the National Industrial Court.

Last week, he accused the governor of sending assassins after him in a bid to eliminate him.

"I want the police, SSS, IGP to know that if anything should happen to me, my family and aides, the governor should be held responsible," he said in a statement.

Bello's office has denied all of Achuba's allegations and accused him of non-performance and sponsoring killings in his community.

This was raised in the petition read on Wednesday, as Bello noted that the government made findings indicting Achuba of alleged involvement in the escalation in the 'Iyano crises' in Ibaji local government area of the state.