₦airaland Forum

kettykin:
If you're from the East, please and please and please, do your risk analysis, think twice before sinking money into another Ajaokuta Steel project. Your so-called investment could be bulldozed overnight for a transatlantic cable, a coastal highway, a drainage channel, or an overhead bridge—without warning, without compensation. History has shown that misplaced trust leads to bitter regrets. Act now, or be prepared to rant later.


There's a case of a $250m estate owned by an igbo lady somewhere around ibeju lekki that was demolished for the coastal highway and is trending here in the United States. Please don't be a victim of Nigeria. Do your risk analysis very well.

Tribal madness has so much entered this one that he calls $250m like it is pure water.....even the richest Hollywood stars that we have all known for decades don't have $250m tied up in real estate its now one nameless Igbo woman living in the USA that Forbes has no idea exists.

Or maybe she sells narcotics and its FBI most wanted list that I should be looking for her in

With or without your investments, Lagos will be Lagos, and it's only God that can submerge the place and change it's destiny to be no 1 in Africa in our lifetime.

Alexiiydon:
igbos that was once clamoring for military rule are now suddenly against sole administrator they are afraid sole administrator can take over south east anytime

SenatePresdo:
This is an old video.

Mynd44
Nlfpmod

Fake news

richiemcgold:
You see why it is good to have respectable and elderly statesmen that can intervene and solve lingering political crisis. The biggest blame for all these brouhahas should go to all elders in Rivers State for failing to call their warring sons and daughters to order. Their action and inaction paved ways for outsiders to meddle into this crisis.

Obiedun:
"I Voted In Support Of Emergency Rule In Rivers; I Counseled Fubara To Show Humility, He Didn't Listen"
Hon Ugochinyere

richmond500:
No, the genesis of the issue, no one knows.
First it was stated that Wike requested some amount from Rivers allocation and that was the news that fly, it was never about Amaewhule

favor914:
he will fall some day, but not to a useless Judas like fubara.

You maybe right, listen to what one of his prominent backers is now saying ..... agreement na agreement, see 360

"Fubara is not an Ijaw man, na Satan Pikin"

~ Asari Dokubo 😭

What did i just watch!😨🤭 pic.twitter.com/1NrgXUiRqS

— Ainà Dipo 🇳🇬 (@dipoaina1) March 20, 2025

abc115:
Fubara is not an Ijaw man, na Satan Pikin"

~ Asari Dokubo 😭

What did i just watch!😨🤭

"Fubara is not an Ijaw man, na Satan Pikin"

~ Asari Dokubo 😭

What did i just watch!😨🤭 pic.twitter.com/1NrgXUiRqS

— Ainà Dipo 🇳🇬 (@dipoaina1) March 20, 2025

seunmsg:
Is 73 not 2/3 of 109?

seunmsg:
The constitution never demands that all members of the house must attend a sitting where emergency declaration is to be confirmed. The constitution simply requires that 2/3 of members must support the declaration. If 75 Senators attends the sitting out of 109 and 73 of them supported the declaration, then the requirement of the constitution has been duly met. No issues.

Mynd44:
You need to know the details.

243 members attended the sitting.

None of them said "nay"

Everyone said yes. Meaning more than 2/3 voted for it

Adiola:
Only an igbo man stood up to the illegality in the house

ImmaculateJOE:
Sen. Seriake Dickson is a lone voice in an unstable Senate.

ediko5:
it's a common occurrence in the Nigeria political space for a sitting governor to fight with his immediate past governor and benefactor. These fights are mostly due to power and political structure control between the current governor and his God father or sometimes due to high level of greed from the God father.

The fight between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and former Governor Nyesom Wike was shocking to many because unlike other former and current governors rift, theirs was too sudden because it started within 2 months after Fubara's inauguration. According to a politician friend close to the Rivers state government house the main foundation of Wike and Fubara's fight is the position of the house of assembly speaker.

According to their political arrangement, the position of the speaker was allocated to Edison Ehie the current chief of staff to the Governor but Wike changed the plan 48 hours to the house of assembly officials election and anointed Martins Amewhule as the speaker of the Rivers state house of assembly. To summarize the story, Edison Ehie felt betrayed and cheated by Wike formed a cartel to convince the Governor about the danger of Wike having control over the house of assembly.

They succeeded in recruiting the governor into their faction and their first action was to impeach the speaker Martins Amewhule but when their impeachment plot failed and the information got to Wike, he ordered that the Governor should be impeach for daring to impeach the speaker he anointed. Boom! that was where Sim vs Wike fight started.

How did Governor Fubara failed in displaying humility and patience ? Firstly I'm not a supporter of Wike or Godfatherism in politics but to succeed in this world you need humility, patience and some cases loyalty (in politics). Fubara was to quick to allow people to use him as a spearhead to wage war on Wike (mostly Wike's political enemies without any strong political structure). He allowed Wike's enemies to use him to fight Wike when he was yet to understand how politics works remember the governor have been a politician before, he has been a civil servant all through his life.

I'm i saying the governor shouldn't have fought Wike's Godfatherism ? NO but he should've endured Wike's insults for sometime while mastering the political game and building his own structure before he start opposing Wike's control. Imagine a sitting Governor only have 4 house of assembly members on his side out of 31, imagine a governor that couldn't have any LGA chairmen he met in office to his camp, imagine a governor where high profiled commissioners resigned from his cabinet - it shows the man is really an infant politician.

The people spearheading the governor to fight Wike are the ones benefiting from the fight ranging from political structure control, political appointment/contract, court litigation and others, there was a time Edison Ehie controlled the government house and will give top orders and approvals before the governor was even informed. According to an insider he approved and published the names of some LGA caretaker chairmen before the governor was informed and it almost caused serious issue between him and the governor but they managed it in house.

It would've been a better idea for the governor to learn the political game under Wike despite the insults he may receive and later use the experience along with other people to fight Wike and build his own structure than allowing different cartels and factions to give him directionless advice all for their personal interest.

IgOga:
Fubara is still the governor of the state. No president can remove him from office

Heavens1stson:
Rivers: Pro-Tinubu lawyer makes U-turn, declares process unconstitutional

How it began (1 & 2) vs. how it ended (3 & 4)

Oscarchims:
So the suspension of a democratically elected governor is in line with the constitution... Just tell me

ElevationD:
“In 2004 and 2006, we condemned the illegal dissolution of democratic structures when President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed emergency rules on Plateau State and Ekiti State, respectively. Regrettably, on both occasions, the Supreme Court refused to determine the constitutional validity of the dissolution of democratic structures on the ground that the suit were procedurally incompetent because they were instituted during the six-month emergency period by the suspended legislators in the name of Plateau State without the authorization of the Sole Administration of the state!

However, in 2013, when a state of emergency was declared in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States by former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, we urged him to reject the pressure mounted on by anti democratic forces to remove the elected Governors and dissolve democratic structures in the affected States. President Jonathan followed the path of constitutionalism.

In 2021, the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN announced the plan of the federal government to declare a state of emergency in Anambra State over insecurity and threat to a complete breakdown of law and order in that part of the Federation We advised President Buhari not to demolish democratic structures even if emergency rule was imposed on the state. President Buhari followed the path of constituionalism.

In the cases of Adegbenro vs. Attorney-General of the Federation (1962) 1 NLR 338 F.R.A. Williams V Dr. M.A. Majekodunmi (1962) 1 NLR 328 the Supreme Court of Nigeria validated the Emergency Powers Act 1961 to justify the dissolution of democratic structures as well as suspension of fundamental human rights in western region. As there is no equivalent of the Emergency Powers Act 1961 under the current constitutional dispensation, the suspension of an elected Governor by an elected President is a constitutional anomaly under the 1999 Constitution.

In Attorney General of the Federation v. Attorney General of Abia State & Ors (2024) LPELR-62576 (SC) filed by the Bola Tinubu administration, the Supreme Court of Nigeria held that the removal of elected chairmen and councilors as well as appointment of sole administrators or caretaker committees by State Governors to run local government councils are illegal and unconstitutional. It follows to reason that the suspension of elected governors and elected members of the House of Assembly by the President is illegal and unconstitutional in every material particular.

To that extent, a serving or retired military officer can not be imposed as a Sole Administrator to govern any state in Nigeria. Similarly, a military officer cannot be appointed by the National Assembly as a Sole Administrator to govern the Nigerian people during a war between Nigeria and another country.

In the Speaker, Bauchi State House of Assembly v Hon Rifkatu Danna (2017) 49 WRN 82 and several other cases, Nigerian Courts have held that the suspension of elected legislators is illegal and unconstitutional. Therefore, the National Assembly should not endorse the illegal suspension of the Rivers State legislators that have not defected from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress. Instead of approving the illegal dissolution of democratic structures in Rivers State, the National Assembly should assist Governor Fubara by invoking its powers under section 11 (4) of the Constitution “to make laws for the peace, order and good government of that State”

Therefore, we are compelled to call on President Bola Tinubu to follow the path of constituionalism without any delay. The President should proceed to reinstate the suspended Governor Fubara and Deputy Governor Odu and restore all democratic structures in Rivers State. This call is without prejudice to the duty imposed on the President to adopt extraordinary measures to restore law and order in Rivers State under Governor Fubara in strict compliance with the provisions of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended”

Femi Falana SAN

Oscarchims:
Jonathan declared state of emergency but based on the fact that he understands the constitution, he knows he can't remove an elected governor... See how they are inviting an ant infested firewood, they should not be surprised when lizard begins visiting their house.

id911:
Are you sure you're educated? I've read the Nigerian constitution several times from A to Z and nowhere does the President has power to suspend an elected officials.

Even the Supreme Court ruled that the President has no such powers due to previous case that was why President Jonathan couldn't suspend hose Governors in the North even when he declared SoE

Sheuns:
The bill was not signed into law, therefore it’s not law.

Ikoles:
Can the new administrator award Projects like a sitting Governor ?

9jatriot:
So normally all these people non even de go work?