The suspension of the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, recently by President Ahmed Tinubu has raised a lot of concerns within the Rivers state, Nigeria and Africa.
A legal practitioner who is a close alley of Governor Sim Fubara who pleads anonymous told our reporter in Port Harcourt, that the Governor and his legal team are heading to Court to challenge his suspension wherein they believe the president does not have the legal power to suspend an elected governor of a state claiming that there is flaws in the president’s action, stressing that even the states witnessing killings, tension, such political crisis for years now and no president and not even Tinubu himself declared state of emergency or suspended the governor.
Other people interviewed see it as the highest injustice of Tinubu’s administration where rule of law does not apply and where one single person holds a state to ransome for personal interests claiming that even if there should be a state of emergency, it should not be Rivers State, stressing that it is an insult in it’s totality, and humiliation on the part of the Governor who had been on the path of peace for long now, trying to obey all the Supreme Court rulings.
Moses Ubani says that the president should not ignore the likely implications of what is playing out now. He stressed that if because of one man’s political advantage that decisions are taken liable to bring calamity to millions of people of a state, Nigeria needs to be pitied than blaming Nyesom Woke for his excesses who wants to institutionalize himself as the unchallenged Lord of Rivers State, being the person who masterminds the Rivers State crisis.
