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Tinubu can remove any governor from office; Fubara in Rivers just happens to be first: AGF Fagbemi

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, on Wednesday defended President Bola Tinubu’s state of emergency proclamation in Rivers State, saying the president has the power to sack any governor from office.

Mr Fagbemi’s statement, which has no basis in the Nigerian Constitution, came a day after Mr Tinubu ordered the removal of Simi Fubara as governor of Rivers.

The president cited a protracted political crisis in the state for his decision, as lawmakers attempted to impeach the governor from office over a slew of political disagreements.

Since proclaiming the emergency rule on Tuesday evening, Mr Tinubu has come under intense backlash as law pundits deemed the decision an abuse of office and argued whether the president had any constitutional right to suspend an elected governor who was not impeached.

While trying to justify the controversial move, Mr Fagbemi not only backed the proclamation but also added that any governor who posed a threat to the president’s administration should expect dismissal.

“If it happens again, I will encourage the president to do the same, maybe with greater vigour and vitality,” the attorney-general said emphatically.

He said Mr Tinubu would not give anyone preferential treatment and would bear down the full weight of emergency law on uncooperative states.

“It’s Rivers State today; it can be anybody’s turn tomorrow,” the attorney-general said on Wednesday at a briefing.

“Let the signal be clearly sent for those who want to foment trouble, who want to make the practice of democracy and enjoyment of dividends of democracy a mirage to think twice,” he added.

The emergency proclamation on Tuesday night sent shockwaves through the country as Mr Fubara had not yet been impeached. Mr Tinubu’s activation of Section 305 of the Nigerian Constitution to remove an elected governor was widely deemed an overreach of his presidential powers.

How Mr Fagbemi, a senior lawyer, reached his controversial point pronouncement remained unclear. The Nigerian Constitution Section 305 allows the president to declare emergency powers over a state to restore order. Still, it does not say the president can remove existing democratic institutions and replace them with an emergency military rule. The National Assembly has until Thursday to ratify the declaration, with most lawmakers staying away from the parliament on Wednesday to avoid debating the matter.

Some governors have expressed the potential to approach the Supreme Court to interpret the president’s decision and potentially nullify it.

https://gazettengr.com/tinubu-can-remove-any-governor-from-office-fubara-in-rivers-just-happens-to-be-first-agf-fagbemi-2/

Any governor misbehaving towards national peace will be treat in language he understands.
Tinubu does joke with any idiot.
We love our great president Tinubu

Fool . Continue..

Very soon you will be on the sick bed reciting this statement and would remembered, oh, mine is excruciating pain on the sick bed, is this how I am going to be remove from the earth??

Why didn't I die naturally, why would I have to suffer this much?

Big fool, extraordinary foolish land grabbers and state grabbers who doesn't know your antecedents....

Only blame wike the greedy occultic idiot.

Wike has sent himself to political oblivion..


No wonder atiku refused making him His running...

If demanded in the best interest of the nation, he will.

Stop making a case out of nothing!

His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) should be commended, celebrated and praised for such timely gesture.

Asiwaju acted as the Grand commander in chief, and took the best decision in the nations interest.

So if a Governor decides to nuke his state, The President should just watch because he was democratically elected.

We have a President for a reason, and we lucky to have a competent one like Asiwaju.

All power belongs to the president.

So if fubara resumes office after suspension...

Amaewhule will serve another impeachment notice..prompting another chaos which will result to another state of emergency..hmm

Fools

Bought AGF


Criminal legal system.

So Tinubu is now the constitution.



No more regards for constitutional authority in Nigeria under a dictator tinubu

BIZNess123:
So if fubara resumes office after suspension...

Amaewhule will serve another impeachment notice..prompting another chaos which will result to another state of emergency..hmm

The suspension is illegal and cannot stand .

Jagaban my president.

I love to see it.

You’re inviting a coup for Tinubu himself to be removed and imprisoned

Wike will remove Tinubu den cuz he's the new commander in chief in the presidential villa

TimeManager:
When will you sanction some mischievous character parading themselves on this platform to mislead the audience with misleading headlines and misinformation.

seun

Mynd44

nlfpmod


-Kiss the truth!

OP isn't wrong. People's Gazette merely rewrote what the AGF said, but in a blunt way.

Daddyk87:
Any governor misbehaving towards national peace will be treat in language he understands.
Tinubu does joke with any idiot.
We love our great president Tinubu

The entire north is holding Nigeria to ransome with terrorist collecting tax and kidnapping freely and herdsmen finishing people but there has been nothing like state of emergency..... who is fooling who?

Expect more from the dictator, if he manage win 2027 election

He will contest for 3rd term and win, nobody can stand in his way after 2027

Some people will just loose their sense of reasoning because of small position given to them.

Shey una don hear

Mercisharelove:
Fool . Continue..

Very soon you will be on the sick bed reciting this statement and would remembered, oh, mine is excruciating pain on the sick bed, is this how I am going to be remove from the earth??

Why didn't I die naturally, why would I have to suffer this much?

Big fool, extraordinary foolish land grabbers and state grabbers who doesn't know your antecedents....

Only blame wike the greedy occultic idiot.

Sick and death? That’s what you wish him? That will definitely happen after your burial. Several of those who wished Buhari death have been buried and forgotten while Buhari is looking younger every day

I think the AGF is misquoting the president.

No president has that power to remove a sitting governor.

tundegan:
I think the AGF is misquoting the president.

No president has that power to remove a sitting governor.

Carry your lawyer gown and wig and go to Court

FuglyGurl:
Tinubu can remove any governor from office; Fubara in Rivers just happens to be first: AGF Fagbemi




https://gazettengr.com/tinubu-can-remove-any-governor-from-office-fubara-in-rivers-just-happens-to-be-first-agf-fagbemi-2/

Only Yorubas are supporting this rubbish. They think we are in the wild wild west

zeuss:
The entire north is holding Nigeria to ransome with terrorist collecting tax and kidnapping freely and herdsmen finishing people but there has been nothing like state of emergency..... who is fooling who?

You really have time to quote that dude. Deep down they know this is wrong and not constitutional but when your paid job is to defend nonsense what do you expect? These same guys are goading the president on. Until it will be too late. Obviously we are now in a dictatorship.

Daddyk87:
Any governor misbehaving towards national peace will be treat in language he understands.
Tinubu does joke with any idiot.
We love our great president Tinubu

make Una no cry when another president do am to any yoruba governor ooo

peleson1:
The suspension is illegal and cannot stand .

It's already standing

etrouble:
Sick and death? That’s what you wish him? That will definitely happen after your burial. Several of those who wished Buhari death have been buried and forgotten while Buhari is looking younger every day

What of Babangida, they even make a coffin for him and fried Akara in Abeokuta, the IBB who was in his late to early sixties then is over 80years old now.

This Lawyer Lateef no get shame


History will judge you in relation to all these atrocities you are perpetrating for your God father and his gang

Elete kponmo

Bala Mohammed and Adeleke to follow

Chaii.. Nigeria's Judiciary is gone!

Where is the "Independence of the Judiciary?

lol …