₦airaland Forum

owobokiri:
Trying hard to normalize this evil deed by Tibubu?
How many threads now about "past states of emergencies"? It is as if we have to accept th Rivers state event because we accepted so before! Where are the correlations? Or are we going to accept this infamy juat simply because state of emergencies were declared in the past?

I mean in all past declarations of state of emergencies there were obvious facts of insurgencies and near break down of law and order. Even when Jonathan did so in the north, he allowed the opposition governors to stay, inspite of the fact that there were genuine security reasons to remove them. Why did Tinubu remove Fubara!?

Because Fubara refused to allow Wike dance skelewu on Rivers state purse as he has always done since he was a local government chairman? So if there is a shouting match at any state governors house, the president can declare a state of emergency and remove everyone. Is Tibubu now the new Abacha?

PrinceAsanike:
You are only being abusive, the other guy is more rational and his point is very cogent. Learn to express your view with respect

AgroBizSolution:
Is former President Goodluck Jonathan a Yoruba man?

ogaemma:
There is provisions for state of emergency enshrined in section 305 of our constitution.
But the president does not have the power to collapse the entire democratic structure of the state.
What happened in Rivers State is a coup.
You cannot stop the function of the house of assembly.
When Goodluck Jonathan declared state of emergency in some northern states, the governor's were not removed.

chopnaira:
xyz

EXOUSIAng:
I don't understand why people are acting like the president invented something new.

hopedey:
Is only a fool that will say Fubara fuccked up. Tinubu has been using Wike to fight Fubara time will tell

EXOUSIAng:
Was the governor and the House of Assembly involved in the crisis?
Why can't you people understand that this is a completely different situation.

anonimi:
Can you please confirm that Jonathan sacked the governors of the three states in the way that T-Pain has done, following the example of his fellow Yoruba man, Obasanjo

ogaemma:
There is provisions for state of emergency enshrined in section 305 of our constitution.
But the president does not have the power to collapse the entire democratic structure of the state.
What happened in Rivers State is a coup.

You cannot stop the function of the house of assembly.
When Goodluck Jonathan declared state of emergency in some northern states, the governor's were not removed.

EXOUSIAng:
Was the governor and the House of Assembly involved in the crisis?
Why can't you people understand that this is a completely different situation.

chopnaira:
In 2004, after hundreds of people were killed in communal clashes in Plateau State, President Olusegun Obasanjo suspended Governor Joshua Dariye and declared a state of emergency.

Two years later, he did the same in Ekiti, suspending Governor Ayo Fayose.

In 2013: President Jonathan declared state of emergency in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe state.

ogaemma:
I have a copy of the 1999 Nigeria constitution as amended.
There is no where an elected president can collapse the entire democratic structure of a state all in the name of state of emergency.
You cannot stop the constitutional function of an elected house of Assembly.
Let the case go to court and you all will see that Tinubu will lost outright.

Amotolongbo:
In short, State of Emergencies are Yoruba things

ogaemma:
I have a copy of the 1999 Nigeria constitution as amended.
There is no where an elected president can collapse the entire democratic structure of a state all in the name of state of emergency.
You cannot stop the constitutional function of an elected house of Assembly.
Let the case go to court and you all will see that Tinubu will lost outright.

greatseed:
I saw in the PM newspaper up there when Tinubu shouted that FG of Obasanjo was after him. 😀😀😀 how tides change. He too should chase obj back. Now that he has the power

Alba3:
Azikiwe signed first state of emergency in the Western Region in 1962; GEJ in Bornu and Yobe later Adamawa.

Aonkuuse:
People are crying rivers of tears but I hold no sympathy for any criminal politician. When he was dinning with Wike and swimming his way to power through irregularities and illegality, he was smiling, but now table has turned, let him face what he brought upon himself, honour your deal with Wike, give Caesar what belongs to Caesar

MetaMatrix:
Are you normal?? Are you robot?
Who and Fubara did the supreme Court made law onto?? What have you been smoking

ogaemma:
There is provisions for state of emergency enshrined in section 305 of our constitution.
But the president does not have the power to collapse the entire democratic structure of the state.
What happened in Rivers State is a coup.
You cannot stop the function of the house of assembly.
When Goodluck Jonathan declared state of emergency in some northern states, the governor's were not removed.

kayowalemi:
The state of emergency in 1999 constitution doesn't empower president to remove elected governor or House of Assembly. It only empower him to declare emergency rule with federal security outfit maintaining law and order in that state while governor is still carrying out his civic duty, most especially when the governor requested the emergency rule.

Goodluck declared a state of emergency in 3 northern states without vacating the governors because of insurgency. But that law that remove governor is in 1963 construction (not 1973). It has been removed in 1999 constitution. Read that emergency rule again.

SmartPolician:
I've always maintained here that Tinubu keeps advising Fubara to sort out the issues in his state without mentioning Wike to suggest that Fubara is the bad person because he wants Wike to repeat in 2027 with Rivers State election results what he did for him in 2023. The plans are gradually unfolding.

I only pity people who will be the puns (victims) of this political power play because the coming days will be bloody.

owobokiri:
Trying hard to normalize this evil deed by Tibubu?
How many threads now about "past states of emergencies"? It is as if we have to accept th Rivers state event because we accepted so before! Where are the correlations? Or are we going to accept this infamy juat simply because state of emergencies were declared in the past?

I mean in all past declarations of state of emergencies there were obvious facts of insurgencies and near break down of law and order. Even when Jonathan did so in the north, he allowed the opposition governors to stay, inspite of the fact that there were genuine security reasons to remove them. Why did Tinubu remove Fubara!?

Because Fubara refused to allow Wike dance skelewu on Rivers state purse as he has always done since he was a local government chairman? So if there is a shouting match at any state governors house, the president can declare a state of emergency and remove everyone. Is Tibubu now the new Abacha?

Aonkuuse:
People are crying rivers of tears but I hold no sympathy for any criminal politician. When he was dinning with Wike and swimming his way to power through irregularities and illegality, he was smiling, but now table has turned, let him face what he brought upon himself, honour your deal with Wike, give Caesar what belongs to Caesar

Aonkuuse:
People are crying rivers of tears but I hold no sympathy for any criminal politician. When he was dinning with Wike and swimming his way to power through irregularities and illegality, he was smiling, but now table has turned, let him face what he brought upon himself, honour your deal with Wike, give Caesar what belongs to Caesar

Amotolongbo:
In short, State of Emergencies are Yoruba things

ogaemma:
There is provisions for state of emergency enshrined in section 305 of our constitution.
But the president does not have the power to collapse the entire democratic structure of the state.
What happened in Rivers State is a coup.
You cannot stop the function of the house of assembly.
When Goodluck Jonathan declared state of emergency in some northern states, the governor's were not removed.