Tinubu May 13 2013 Imposition of the State of Emergency. March 18 2025 Tinubu did what? Leadership of ekwu ozo, eme ozo.

[Abraham Madu]

Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his family members are being held hostage at the Government House, Port-Harcourt, by a contingent of heavily armed soldiers Tuesday night, Peoples Gazette has learnt.

The development comes moments after President Bola Tinubu invoked Section 180 of the Nigerian Constitution to proclaim a state of emergency in Rivers. The Nigerian leader based his controversial move on a prolonged and rapidly escalating political feud led by state lawmakers loyal to Nyesom Wike, who commenced impeachment proceedings against Mr Fubara last week to settle scores in his fallout with Mr Wike, who engineered Mr Fubara’s election in 2023 despite corruption charges.

Rivers government sources told The Gazette that soldiers carrying out the president’s instructions on declaring the state of emergency barricaded all entrances and exits to the government house immediately after the president’s speech.

Attempts by Mr Fubara and his family to pack their belongings out of the Government House have been rebuffed by the soldiers, who suppressed all movements around the premises.

“We are being held hostage,” an affected official told The Gazette from the scene on Tuesday night. “They said they don’t have instruction to let anyone leave the premises.”

It was unclear whether the soldiers implemented their duties as instructed or were overzealous in following specific orders.

Spokespersons for the Nigerian Army and Defence Headquarters did not immediately return requests seeking comments about the soldiers’ treatment of the Fubaras.

Mr Tinubu’s declaration to suspend the feuding parties from office for six months, effective Tuesday,  sparked furious debates across social media as netizens argued whether the president had constitutional grounds to suspend an elected governor whom the state lawmakers have not yet impeached. Efforts to impeach Mr Fubara began on Monday, barely 24 hours before Mr Tinubu imposed an emergency ordinance.

Lawyers like Inibehe Effiong and Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana have excoriated the president for taking the law into his own hands without regard for the Constitution’s position.

The president named the retired chief of naval staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, as the military administrator in Rivers in the interim.

[Nebukadineze Adiele]

Suspending governor Fubara and his deputy governor, Ngozi Ọdu, is absolutely unconstitutional -- the president has no authority/power to suspend any elected official from office. Tinubu is trying to recreate the 1960s wild wild west of his region, which led to the death of the first republic and eventually to the war destruction took place between 1967 and 1970; he is recreating this in the Rivers state where he lost woefully, until then governor Wike doctored the election result. In other words, a man who was not elected by the people of Rivers state has turned around and removed a man whom the people of Rivers state duly elected. What an irony

When Obasanjo tried to suspend his vice president, the courts reversed him; when the same Obasanjo suspended two dumb thieving governors, one accepted the suspension (Dariye of Plateau) while Fayose didn't accept it, even though he ran away like a coward. Years later, the courts ruled, as we had insisted, that the Nigerian President has no power to remove or suspend an elected governor. Presidents Jonathan and Buhari had emergency declarations in some states in their presidencies, but neither of them tampered with the elected officials of the states. Fubara must reject this suspension and Nigerians must rise up withy him immediately and reject Tinubu's criminal act of claiming to have suspended an elected governor. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

[Afis]

“ Efforts to impeach Mr Fubara began on Monday, barely 24 hours before Mr Tinubu imposed an emergency ordinance.”….Newstory 

Tinubu is doing Fubara a big favor. The State Assembly was in the process of kicking him out. Only God knows what could’ve happened in the post-removal, with the Ijaws threatening to burn down the state.

There were two pipeline explosions between Ijaws threats and yesterday.

I wonder when it’s appropriate to stop an imminent danger, and incoming chaos. 

The president had a peace meeting with these Idiots, they accepted his peace initiative, then got back to Rivers and the governor reneged on the agreement. 

The governor demolished the House of Assembly, Nebu, where were you?

I didn’t read anywhere about Nebu’s condemnation of the governor for demolishing the symbol of the legislative arm.

The governor removed 26 members of the assembly, and presented his budget to four members. 

Nebu, you think the state was functioning as a democratic state after the governor demolished the House of Assembly?

I wonder why you are quick to condemn the president’s peaceful initiative of shutting done a non-working government that’s moving towards chaos.

Nebu always read loud the verses in the constitution, with deliberate omission of facts. 

So Nebu, you just keep shouting, your shouts never bite. 

No one in Nigeria even knows Nebu is calling for intifada.

Tinubu is giving them six months to cool off.

Knowing Tinubu, he may call on all parties to have another peace meeting, with him as the mediator.

If all goes well they will all be back in two months.

🤣

Shikena 

Afis

"Repetition is the favorite weapon of the Ignoramus, to elicit annoyance without added value" - Afis

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Suspending governor Fubara and his deputy governor, Ngozi Ọdu, is absolutely unconstitutional -- the president has no authority/power to suspend any elected official from office. Tinubu is trying to recreate the 1960s wild wild west of his region, which led to the death of the first republic and eventually to the war destruction took place between 1967 and 1970; he is recreating this in the Rivers state where he lost woefully, until then governor Wike doctored the election result. In other words, a man who was not elected by the people of Rivers state has turned around and removed a man whom the people of Rivers state duly elected. What an irony

When Obasanjo tried to suspend his vice president, the courts reversed him; when the same Obasanjo suspended two dumb thieving governors, one accepted the suspension (Dariye of Plateau) while Fayose didn't accept it, even though he ran away like a coward. Years later, the courts ruled, as we had insisted, that the Nigerian President has no power to remove or suspend an elected governor. Presidents Jonathan and Buhari had emergency declarations in some states in their presidencies, but neither of them tampered with the elected officials of the states. Fubara must reject this suspension and Nigerians must rise up withy him immediately and reject Tinubu's criminal act of claiming to have suspended an elected governor. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 03:37:58 AM EDT, Abraham Madu <abraha...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his family members are being held hostage at the Government House, Port-Harcourt, by a contingent of heavily armed soldiers Tuesday night, Peoples Gazette has learnt.

The development comes moments after President Bola Tinubu invoked Section 180 of the Nigerian Constitution to proclaim a state of emergency in Rivers. The Nigerian leader based his controversial move on a prolonged and rapidly escalating political feud led by state lawmakers loyal to Nyesom Wike, who commenced impeachment proceedings against Mr Fubara last week to settle scores in his fallout with Mr Wike, who engineered Mr Fubara’s election in 2023 despite corruption charges.

Rivers government sources told The Gazette that soldiers carrying out the president’s instructions on declaring the state of emergency barricaded all entrances and exits to the government house immediately after the president’s speech.

Attempts by Mr Fubara and his family to pack their belongings out of the Government House have been rebuffed by the soldiers, who suppressed all movements around the premises.

“We are being held hostage,” an affected official told The Gazette from the scene on Tuesday night. “They said they don’t have instruction to let anyone leave the premises.”

It was unclear whether the soldiers implemented their duties as instructed or were overzealous in following specific orders.

Spokespersons for the Nigerian Army and Defence Headquarters did not immediately return requests seeking comments about the soldiers’ treatment of the Fubaras.

Mr Tinubu’s declaration to suspend the feuding parties from office for six months, effective Tuesday,  sparked furious debates across social media as netizens argued whether the president had constitutional grounds to suspend an elected governor whom the state lawmakers have not yet impeached. Efforts to impeach Mr Fubara began on Monday, barely 24 hours before Mr Tinubu imposed an emergency ordinance.

Lawyers like Inibehe Effiong and Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana have excoriated the president for taking the law into his own hands without regard for the Constitution’s position.

The president named the retired chief of naval staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, as the military administrator in Rivers in the interim.

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[Afis]

When Vin Odebesilu posted his crazy stuff yesterday highlighting in green all the provisions of the constitution on declaring state of emergency, I responded offhandedly that Tinubu only needs the #6.

Then he will notify NASS.

That’s all he was required to do.

“ Such other public danger that constitutes a threat to the Federation.“

Though it’s vague, but it covers the chaos, the demolition of a democratic institution by Fubara, removal of 26 members, the looming impeachment of governor, the threats by Niger terrorists to blow up pipelines, and the two pipeline explosions.

All of the above constitutes threat to the federation. 

Duh!

Shikena 

Afis

"Repetition is the favorite weapon of the Ignoramus, to elicit annoyance without added value" - Afis

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On Mar 19, 2025, at 4:43 AM, 'Nebukadineze Adiele' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:



Suspending governor Fubara and his deputy governor, Ngozi Ọdu, is absolutely unconstitutional -- the president has no authority/power to suspend any elected official from office. Tinubu is trying to recreate the 1960s wild wild west of his region, which led to the death of the first republic and eventually to the war destruction took place between 1967 and 1970; he is recreating this in the Rivers state where he lost woefully, until then governor Wike doctored the election result. In other words, a man who was not elected by the people of Rivers state has turned around and removed a man whom the people of Rivers state duly elected. What an irony

When Obasanjo tried to suspend his vice president, the courts reversed him; when the same Obasanjo suspended two dumb thieving governors, one accepted the suspension (Dariye of Plateau) while Fayose didn't accept it, even though he ran away like a coward. Years later, the courts ruled, as we had insisted, that the Nigerian President has no power to remove or suspend an elected governor. Presidents Jonathan and Buhari had emergency declarations in some states in their presidencies, but neither of them tampered with the elected officials of the states. Fubara must reject this suspension and Nigerians must rise up withy him immediately and reject Tinubu's criminal act of claiming to have suspended an elected governor. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 03:37:58 AM EDT, Abraham Madu <abraha...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his family members are being held hostage at the Government House, Port-Harcourt, by a contingent of heavily armed soldiers Tuesday night, Peoples Gazette has learnt.

The development comes moments after President Bola Tinubu invoked Section 180 of the Nigerian Constitution to proclaim a state of emergency in Rivers. The Nigerian leader based his controversial move on a prolonged and rapidly escalating political feud led by state lawmakers loyal to Nyesom Wike, who commenced impeachment proceedings against Mr Fubara last week to settle scores in his fallout with Mr Wike, who engineered Mr Fubara’s election in 2023 despite corruption charges.

Rivers government sources told The Gazette that soldiers carrying out the president’s instructions on declaring the state of emergency barricaded all entrances and exits to the government house immediately after the president’s speech.

Attempts by Mr Fubara and his family to pack their belongings out of the Government House have been rebuffed by the soldiers, who suppressed all movements around the premises.

“We are being held hostage,” an affected official told The Gazette from the scene on Tuesday night. “They said they don’t have instruction to let anyone leave the premises.”

It was unclear whether the soldiers implemented their duties as instructed or were overzealous in following specific orders.

Spokespersons for the Nigerian Army and Defence Headquarters did not immediately return requests seeking comments about the soldiers’ treatment of the Fubaras.

Mr Tinubu’s declaration to suspend the feuding parties from office for six months, effective Tuesday,  sparked furious debates across social media as netizens argued whether the president had constitutional grounds to suspend an elected governor whom the state lawmakers have not yet impeached. Efforts to impeach Mr Fubara began on Monday, barely 24 hours before Mr Tinubu imposed an emergency ordinance.

Lawyers like Inibehe Effiong and Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana have excoriated the president for taking the law into his own hands without regard for the Constitution’s position.

The president named the retired chief of naval staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, as the military administrator in Rivers in the interim.

[Nebukadineze Adiele]

Afis,

Here you go again, discussing something different from what I am discussing, why do you engage in this annoying behavior? I have no problem declaring a state of emergency, I have an absolute problem with a president’s suspension of a governor who was elected by the people, just as the president was elected, especially even when nothing in the Constitution or of any laws of Nigeria, including case law, empowers a president to suspend a governor.

You have lived in the US for decades; the federal government declares states of emergency periodically in the US, and even in the 1960s when KKK reigned wild in the South, have you ever seen or heard of a POTUS having ever removed an elected personnel, not to talk of removing a governor and his deputy at the same time? The reason is because no law permits a POTUS to doing so. 

Nigeria plagiarized its Constitution from that of the USA, can you point me to the law that empowers a president of Nigeria to remove a state governor? Do you enjoy living under the rule of law in the USA, but only to prescribe otherwise for Nigeria?

Yes, I condemned Fubara for knocking down the legislative building, even though I support him in his feuding with Wike and gang — go to the archives to see my position on that, I am not a hypocrite who excuses lawlessness as do some of you. Governor Fubara’s problem with the legislature is because the members chose being Wike’s boy-boyi, who would remove the governor from office, over functioning as legislators. They compounded the situation by defecting en mass to the President’s ruling APC — this nonsensical talk that no evidence exists that they defected to APC is not just dishonest, it is also evidence that Tinubu’s action was calculated to retrieving the political power of Rivers State from Fubara and handing it back to Wike who uses it to rob and abuse the state mercilessly. Abundant and lawful evidence exists that those 27 legislators defected to the ruling party, that evidence is a session of the legislature where they declared their defections one after another — that session a lawful sitting whose outcome carried lawful weight.

Assuming, without conceding, that President Tinubu could suspend a governor, why did he also suspend the deputy governor, other than that she is also no longer loyal to Wike? The legislators’ validity is still in court —a lower court authorized Fubara to deal with the 3-member-legislature until elections were held to replace the defected ones; the Amaewhule group appealed this case, which is still pending in a different court until the Supreme Court corruptly and unconstitutionally directed the governor to deal with Amaewhule and gang, even though that case was not before them.

Afis, when are some of you Nigerians going to stop defending lawlessness because of tribalism and corrupt politicking? How could you not see anything wrong with president Tinubu’s action? Can you imagine president Trump suspending Governor Hochul of New York from office as the governor has defied his order to end the congestion pricing in Manhattan? Come on man, there has to be a difference between us and those who live in Nigeria. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

[Kayode Adebayo]

Ignorant Pastor Emeka Okala:

During the State of Emergency in any state in Nigeria, the President and The National Assembly automatically inherit the functions of both The Governor of that state and the State Assembly in that state. The President has the power to do anything in that state during the period of the emergency including suspending the Governor of the state and its State Assembly subject to the approval of the National Assembly in Abuja. Moreso, he must 

appoint an administrator as head of the Executive while the National Assembly inherits all law making functions of that state. That power is inherent in Section 305 of the Constitution. 

I don't know if Tinubu has informed the National Assembly or not. But he is constitutionally mandated and required to do so. Furthermore, he must publish the State of Emergency declaration in the Government Gazette. If he didn't do so within 24 hours of the declaration, the State of Emergency will not go into effect until he does so.

Your problem is that you don't understand the meaning of A State of Emergency and its implications. 

Moreso, he also has the power to declare a State of Emergency for Nigeria as a whole, if situation arises. That power is given to him as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the Nigerian Constitution. 

Finally, as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, he has the power to direct or order the entire security paraphernalia of Nigeria to ensure security either in a state where the State of Emergency is declared, if it's a state or for the entire country, if it's a National State of Emergency.

Go study Political Science and Public Administration. Your Corporate Communications Degree is lacking how the Government works. That's why you're confused.

Kayode

[Kayode Adebayo]

Pastor Emeka Okala:

In addition, Nigerian president is an Executive President as defined by the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended). He has the power to make Executive Orders. It's derived from the 1999 Constitution. He will make a number of them for Rivers State during the State of Emergency period.

Kayode

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM, Kayode Adebayo

<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Ignorant Pastor Emeka Okala:

During the State of Emergency in any state in Nigeria, the President and The National Assembly automatically inherit the functions of both the Governor of that state and the State Assembly in that state. The President has the power to do anything in that state during the period of the emergency including suspending the Governor of the state and its State Assembly subject to the approval of the National Assembly in Abuja. Moreso, he must 

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"Ignorant Pastor Emeka Okala:

During the State of Emergency in any state in Nigeria, the President and The National Assembly automatically inherit the functions of both The Governor of that state and the State Assembly in that state. The President has the power to do anything in that state during the period of the emergency including suspending the Governor of the state and its State Assembly subject to the approval of the National Assembly in Abuja. Moreso, he must appoint an administrator as head of the Executive while the National Assembly inherits all law making functions of that state. That power is inherent in Section 305 of the Constitution"  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

I have scrolled down this thread and have seen neither a contribution nor reaction of mine hitherto on this subject-matter.  So, where is your fundamental basis for correcting me on this subject-matter - your usual abusive words notwithstanding? Lord have mercy.

But come to think of it, would a State of Emergency have been necessary in Rivers State if President Tinubu was prepared to do his duty as the President of the country - notwithstanding the brazenly massive rigging that put him in that position? I don't think so!

Of all the unacceptable political wickedness and maneuvering that Nyesom Ezenwo Wike played and displayed against Governor Fubara of Rivers State, President Tinubu knew what to do - to call him to order as a serving minister in his cabinet. But he (Tinubu) carefully looked the other way and allowed Wike to continue with his unenviable machinations, perhaps to see Rivers State snowball into a qaugmire that would allow him test the constitutional provision that gives him the power to declare a State of Emergency in a state.

My piece of advice for him is that he (Tinubu) should remember that the declaration of a State of Emergency orchestrated by the federal government under PM Balewa and the stifling of the influence of Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the West gave rise to the "wild, wild West" and "Operation Wetie" that finally plunged Nigeria into a senseless and very regrettable civil war. I don't think President Tinubu would wish for such a calamity to befall Nigeria a second time. 

Yesterday there was a pipeline explosion in Eleme-Ogoni area of the state. And today the all important Port Harcourt Refinery went up in flames - just because some leaders, like PM Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of yore are plotting to remain in power beyond 2027. 

Why not be a Nelson Mandela, who after ruling his country for a term, refused to go for a well-deserved and an overwhelmingly acceptable second term. In terms of honour and respect, I can rightly say that leaders that occupy the place of late President Nelson Mandela in history are negligibly infinitesimal. To me that's what matters most. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace.

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

 

[Kayode Adebayo]

"My piece of advice for him is that he (Tinubu) should remember that the declaration of a State of Emergency orchestrated by the federal government under PM Balewa and the stifling of the influence of Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the West gave rise to the "wild, wild West" and "Operation Wetie" that finally plunged Nigeria into a senseless and very regrettable civil war. I don't think President Tinubu would wish for such a calamity to befall Nigeria a second time." -- Pastor Emeka Okala 

Operation Wetie started in 1962 between Awolowo and Akintola and led to the State of Emergency that Balewa declared in Western Region. I was alive and well during that period. 

Unfortunately for you, you had been ferried by the white man to London for slave work during that period. That's why you didn't know that Operation Wetie led to Balewa's State of Emergency and not vice-versa.

Only Pastor Okala.

Kayode 

[Chukwuemeka Okala]

"Operation Wetie started in 1962 between Awolowo and Akintola and led to the State of Emergency that Balewa declared in Western Region. I was alive and well during that period."  -  Kayode Adebayo

Comment:

Kayode Adebayo,

What then gave birth to Operation Wetie? I can tell you for free that the dangerous political maneuvering in the West by PM Tafawa Balewa and the Northern Regional Premier, Ahmadu Bello - both of whom instigated the fire that finally consumed whatever relationship that existed between Chiefs Awolowo and Akintola with their crafty support for Akintola to spite Papa Awo. Their gimmick led to the declaration of the State of Emergency in the West and the restriction of the movement of the Western politicians - including Chiefs Awolowo and Akintola to 3 miles or so. 

Balewa failed to play his role as the head of the government of the nation-state to genuinely douse the burning fire. Instead what mattered to him was the destruction of the AG to satisfy his whims and caprices. The rest, as they say, is history. I hope President Tinubu doesn't repeat the Balewa kind of politics in contemporary Nigeria. Meka

[Afis]

Good morning Nebu.

I read yours below, which is your opinion.

This below is mine, and I’m sticking with it:

” According to Section 305 (6): President of Nigeria can declare a State of Emergency where:

6. "Such other public danger that constitutes a threat to the Federation" occurs.”……..Naija.

Afis comment: Good US morning to you, Chief Okala.

Per above, one who’s a thinker is bound to ask: What constitutes “public danger…… (that can cause) a threat to the federation”?

I think blowing up of two pipelines and a major depot, in my humble view, constitute more than imminent danger to a  federation that wholly relies on crude oil for its economy.

One is also bound to ask, “can Rivers people govern themselves the way they’ve been carrying on for two years”?

I mean, did Tinubu ask Fubara to demolish the Legislative building?

You guys are not fair at all.

In its judgement, Supreme Court labeled Fubara a “despot”, for demolishing the legislative branch building.

Nothing more damning than that indictment.

I think there is a big difference between Balewa’s actions and inaction that led to the Wetie period in the Western region.

First, the West was a whole region, and any riot in any part of any region would’ve resulted in Wetie too. For example, it was Wetie in the Northern region that brought about the Uncivil War, call it whatever, it was as riotous as West’s Wetie. 

However, the Wetie during Omoboriowo in Ondo state did not reach other states in the former western region.

My point, any crap in Rivers state will not spillover into other states.

Second, as against a premier for a whole region, what we now have is 36 states with 36 governors. 

The Ijaws in Bayelsa are not going to start burning down buildings just because Fubara in Rivers was suspended. 

When OBJ sent soldiers to Odi, no other states joined the Odi people to Wetie, same as troops in Kano.

Third, Tinubu called a meeting of the warring factions and they had an agreement signed by both parties; if Fubara did not like the agreement he should’ve gone back to see the president and discussed it, maybe an amendment could’ve been made.

Fubara did not respect the president enough to go discuss his concerns, instead he listened to the Ijaw sycophants and Arise tv.

Chief, you all that are blaming Tinubu should go cool down. 

He has done what the constitution vaguely ascribed to his office.

I listened to a retired Judge Owoade yesterday on Arise tv, where he schooled Dr Abati on the same 305 constitutional laws you all are misquoting.

As I have said, section 305, especially #6, is vague.

Those arguing that the president has no right to suspend the elected officials, even if they were about to set the state on fire, are just venting an opinion. 

My opinion aligns with Justice Owoade who said the president has the right under the constitution to act in a reasonable way to prevent an imminent danger from becoming a threat to the state.

What can one reasonably call an impending danger in the Rivers situation?

1. The legislative arm has already sent an impeachment notice to the governor.

2. Fubara and his supporters are daring the legislative arm, and had issued many terroristic threats including burning down the state.

3. It’s highly likely they are going to kick Fubara out of office.

4. Fubara and his people have threatened to turn the state into an inferno.

5. There was a pipeline blown up two days ago, probably by Fubara’s supporters.

4. If the blowing up of the pipelines and depots continue, I wonder if that is not a “threat to the federation”.

As the retired Judge said, it’s now in the hands of NASS. 

If NASS voted against Tinubu’s action, then no one can blame the president when the Ijaw terrorists start claiming innocent lives.

Shikena 

Afis

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[Nebukadineze Adiele]

Afis,

Yes, you are entitled to your opinion, but others have a right to point out that such an opinion is formed from misapplication of law or rules if that is the case. You are disusing section 305 of the Constitution as justifying the declaration of the state of emergency by president Tinubu. I have no problem with that declaration, even though I doubt that the factors listed in section 305 of the Nigerian Constitution existed/exists in Rivers state. My position is that Tinubu should have not suspended the elected institutions of Rivers state -- governor, deputy governor, and legislature -- because he has no authority/power to doing so. 

Declaring a state of emergency in Rivers state and suspending the elected functionaries of the state are two different actions, but you (and most Nigerians) assume that it is a single action. While the former may be lawful, the later is absolutely unconstitutional. This is not a matter of opinion, this is a fact -- neither the Constitution nor any law in Nigeria permits the president to suspend an elected governor/deputy governor/state legislature, even in a state of emergency.

Nebukadineze Adiele