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Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Truths9ja(op): 11:09am On Mar 21, 2025

Gov. Makinde Condemns Declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers.

Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has condemned the declaration of state of emergency in Rivers State.

Recall that President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended the governor, Similayi Fubara; his deputy Ngozi Odu, as well as the House of Assembly for six months. The President then appointed Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas (Rtd.) as Sole Administrator for the state.

Governor Makinde, in his biweekly newsletter, The Business of Governance Issue 110, which was published on Thursday evening, noted that the suspension of democracy in Rivers State, through the declaration of State of Emergency, is an illegal act which must be condemned by all well-meaning Nigerians.

The governor wrote further, “I stand today to say that the declaration of the State of Emergency in Rivers State and the suspension of the executive and legislative arms of government by the presidency is an illegality that right-thinking members of society must oppose.

“Our democratic tenets must never be trifled with no matter our personal feelings and loyalties. This is the time to take a stand for fairness, equity and justice.”

The governor added: “As our democracy grows and unfolds, we must also be willing to speak up when we see anything that threatens our development as a nation. We must choose to stand up for what is right, even if it means standing alone.”

He continued, “I am glad that our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is demonstrating the needed strength and leadership. Yesterday (Wednesday), the PDP Governors’ Forum rose from an emergency meeting where we unanimously decided to challenge the actions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a court of competent jurisdiction. We cannot fold our hands and watch the democracy we built for almost three decades be trampled upon.”

https://oyoaffairs.net/makinde-challenges-tinubus-state-of-emergency-in-rivers-state-throws-weight-behind-fubara/

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Truths9ja(op): 11:10am On Mar 21, 2025*

Hmm 🤔 meanwhile, Police fired tear gas and water cannon at Gov Fubara as pro-Wike lawmakers attempted to impeach him(throwback)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GwXJv_hbY

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by tamonokare: 11:10am On Mar 21, 2025

Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by kmst: 11:14am On Mar 21, 2025*

"Even if it means standing alone" That's what patriots do

You must not join the bad wagons because you can't fight them
Stand for the truth always

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 11:31am On Mar 21, 2025

Fake news

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Truths9ja(op): 11:33am On Mar 21, 2025

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Fake news

not fake news here. Check his social media handles

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Truths9ja(op): 11:34am On Mar 21, 2025

kmst:
"Even if it means standing alone" That's what patriots do

You must join the bad wagons because you can't fight them
Stand for the truth always

upon makinde is Wike ally, he stands with fubara over Injustice and unconstitutional state of emergency declaration against him.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Agbegbaorogboye: 11:34am On Mar 21, 2025

This man and his cunning ways

Very soon he will change mouth as soon as G5 is mentioned in his ears

Or maybe he's tired of being a lackey to the whiskey guzzler

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Parydelegate: 11:35am On Mar 21, 2025

Eyes don clear

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by FreeSpirited: 11:35am On Mar 21, 2025

Too late

Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by id4sho(m): 11:35am On Mar 21, 2025

OYO Rebels have mounted shocked

, Baba sope can't work in Ibadan 🤷

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Dotherightthing: 11:35am On Mar 21, 2025*

Contradictory actions

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by bigdammyj: 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025

Noted.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by tundegan: 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025

Makinde is just a joker.

We will see how all these plays out in the coming days.

Tinubu is a man of action and he will do what he believes is right.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Ironfaceman(m): 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025

This courage of yours gov Makinde is what many Nigerians lack.
Tribe does not exempt one from hardship.
I salute your Audacity.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by mach7(m): 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025

LOL.

It is all a game. Oga is targeting PDP ticket for 2027, he is trying to do sakamanje and show workings as "opposition leader"

In politics, the more you look, the less you see.

He is still a member of G5.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by tamonokare: 11:36am On Mar 21, 2025

Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Skoonheid(f): 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

If you want me to do something for you, line up in an orderly manner. Then I can share my peanuts”.
~ Tinubu

I plan for betrayal, I plan for backstabbing, I also plan for reunion and forgiveness long before they happen. In life, I expect nothing, I expect anything, I expect everything.”
~ Tinubu

The agenda of a dead body coming back to life.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Lanruze: 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

Makinde Osha🔥.

This is one the of the greatest Governor in the history of Oyo State.

I was in Ibadan for the Holidays after Five (5) years, and my mind was blown away.

Good one Makinde (omituntun 2.0).

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by yarimo(m): 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

Makinde your weight throwing is useless, FUBARA must stay away from governernce for 6 months na

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by SouthSouth1914: 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

Agbegbaorogboye:
This man and his cunning ways

Now he is cunning because he faults your master’s nonsense.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Antichristian2: 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

New Twist!

So Makinde don leave G5 enter PDP intoto?

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Yugoslavia247(m): 11:37am On Mar 21, 2025

If this was done to an APC STATE I WONT BULGE

This is a direct attack on opposition and other oppositions are not left out.

They can cause chaos and implement SOE

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by richiemcgold: 11:38am On Mar 21, 2025

It's actually a PDP affairs but the party failed to put their house in order.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by pyyxxaro: 11:38am On Mar 21, 2025

G5 - 1 = G4

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Artiiclebeast: 11:39am On Mar 21, 2025

Wike won't understand what struck him by the time he wakes up from his current drunken slumber to realize that he has cut his nose to spite his face by handing over his cash cow to the Chicago Bobo in addition with Lagos to keep in his pocket.

Now that Tinubu has Lagos without even a shot fired, tell me what this greedy drunk Wike has got left to bargain with and who can he call upon to form a coalition.

Wike is gone, gone, gone, and buried.

Jagaban has pocketed and colonized him.

The only thing Tinubu would have needed him for 2027 is that he now can achieve it without needing his help.

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Re: Makinde Challenges Tinubu’s State of Emergency, Throws Weight behind Fubara by Asonaijaaso: 11:40am On Mar 21, 2025

The Nigerian Senate of today is not just useless—it’s an insult to every Nigerian struggling to breathe under the weight of economic collapse. Since the dollar hit ₦1600, these glorified mannequins have gone silent—mute, toothless, and spineless. Not a single senator has dared to stand up to Tinubu. Instead, they bow, bend, and crawl—grovelling like desperate houseboys at the feet of executive power.

These are not lawmakers; they are legislative beggars. The chamber is filled with geriatrics too busy calculating their pensions to speak a word of truth. No orators. No resistance. Just a graveyard of cowards hiding behind agbadas and fake honorifics.

All the firebrands are dead. The lions have fallen. The last of Nigeria’s real men—those with backbone, with rage, with purpose—have been buried and replaced by bloated sycophants. The current Senate is nothing but a retirement home for men who fear consequences, who can’t even raise a whisper in the face of tyranny.

And the most tragic part? The Nigerian people know it. They’ve stopped expecting anything. They know the Senate won’t fight for them, won’t bleed for them, won’t even show up for them. It’s no longer a democratic institution—it’s a pay-per-seat dinner club for expired politicians whose only battle is with their own conscience, and they’ve already lost that war.

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