Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Onueze Okocha (SAN), has said that the deputy governors have no specific constitutional functions, describing them as “spare tyres.”
Okocha made this known while reacting to the lingering feud between the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria in an interview on Channels TV said the deputy governors could only exercise the functions assigned to them by the governor.
He said until circumstances like impeachment, the death, or incapacitation of a governor arise, a deputy governor remains in a passive position, not totally different from that of a spare tyre.
He said, “Deputy governors are like spare tyres, they stay in the boot, nobody uses spare tyres if the four types are working.
“The truth of the matter and this is legal position is that a deputy governor has no specifically assigned functions under the constitution.
“It is only the governor of a…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
