Rivers Emergency Rule: You Make The 'Grievous Mistake', PDP Governors Pinch Tinubu Governors voted on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have asked President Bola Tinubu to reverse the suspension of Rivers governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The PDP Governors’ Forum described Fubara’s suspension as the “grievous mistake” and the “atrocious and retrograde decision”.
On Tuesday night, Tinubu publicised a state of emergency in Rivers following the prolonged political assault in the south-south state.
The president further suspended Fubara, his deputy and the members of the state assembly.
Tinubu nominated Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice-admiral, as the administrator of Rivers state.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Bala Mohammed, governor of Bauchi and chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, disclosed the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers is a “utter misgiving”.
Mohammed disclosed Tinubu’s “silence on the active role played” by Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), in the political turmoil in Rivers was “golden and enabling”.
“He (Wike) has become a law unto himself because he was playing out your script. Now we know. This is completely unstatemanly, biased, and divisive,” the statement reads.
“We state categorically that this unwarranted yet premeditated attack on Rivers State and the Peoples Democratic Party and other repugnance parties is today, the foremost threat to democracy in our dear country, Nigeria and it is an ill wind that will blow no one any good.
“It is the dangerous course of action that will not only endanger our hard-won democracy even so will magnify the crises in the nation, exacerbate mistrust, elevate security threats, extirpate the economy, and our national cohesion and stability.
“The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in its response signed by its President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, has already expressed grave cognation about the purported suspension by the President of the Governor of Rivers State, the Deputy Governor, and the Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
“The NBA confirmed their commitment to justifying the Constitution, exculpating democratic governance, and ensuring that the principle of law dominates in Nigeria.
“President is therefore summoned upon to listen to wise reprove and the voice of reason, as well as accept that he made grievous mistakes and acted in haste, and reverse this atrocious and retrograde decision before it is too late.
“This authoritarian shenanigan is unacceptable and cannot stand.”
Mohammed reported the forum aligns with the NBA and would approach the court to elaborate section 305 (3) of the quality.
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Published 3/19/2025