Fubara's suspension: PDD attacks President Tinubu, see full details

• Following President Bola Tinubu's declaration of a authorities of exigency and the six-month suspension slammed connected Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his lawman Ngozi Odu, and each authorities legislators, large reactions person started pouring in
• The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said President Tinubu’s enactment reeks of governmental manipulation
• The enactment outrightly rejected the statesmanlike pronouncements, claiming that the President lacks specified powerfulness to suspend a democratically elected governor

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering politics, elections, and governance successful Nigeria.

Port Harcourt, Rivers authorities - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it is profoundly disquieted by the nationalist broadcast by President Bola Tinubu successful which the Nigerian person pronounced an imposition of a state of emergency successful Rivers state.

In a connection connected Tuesday night, March 18, signed by Debo Ologunagba, its nationalist spokesperson, obtained by Legit.ng, the PDP wholly rejected what it termed an "attempt by the President to override the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and undermine the votes and volition of the radical of Rivers authorities by seeking to depose a antiauthoritarian authorities and foist an undemocratic regularisation successful the state."

The PDP fumes astatine Rivers' pronouncement by President Bola Tinubu.
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Legit.ng reports that Rivers, a PDP-governed state, has been enmeshed successful a situation since 2023 erstwhile Governor Siminalayi Fubara fell retired with Nyesom Wike, the curate of the national superior territory (FCT).

State of exigency by Tinubu "unconstitutional" - PDP

Furthermore, the main absorption enactment stated that the declaration by President Tinubu of the suspension of the democratically elected Governor of Rivers, Governor Fubara and the assignment of an unelected individual, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (rtd) to govern the authorities is "a wide onslaught connected our nation’s democracy, an abrogation of the votes and antiauthoritarian close of the radical of Rivers State to take their person nether the Constitution."

The PDP said:

"The enactment of Mr. President truthful intelligibly borders connected effort astatine authorities capture. It is the climax of a well-oiled crippled to forcefully instrumentality implicit Rivers authorities for which the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been bent connected stoking situation to guarantee that ideology is yet truncated successful the state."Nigerians are invited to enactment that the concern successful Rivers authorities and the reasons adduced by the President cannot warrant the declaration of a authorities of exigency successful the State nether the 1999 constitution, rendering the declaration wholly incompetent."

President Tinubu declared a authorities of exigency successful Rivers authorities and suspended Governor Fubara connected Tuesday, March 18, hours aft gathering with the work chiefs.
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Rivers' authorities of emergency: PDP alleges unholy motive

The PDP claimed that the statesmanlike declaration "is portion of the larger vicious crippled to foist a siege mentality crossed Nigeria, decimate the opposition, enforce a totalitarian one-party authorities and crook the state into a fiefdom.

The enactment argued that President Tinubu should person waited for the nationalist assembly his authorities of exigency connection earlier making the announcement successful the viral nationalist broadcast.

Tinubu's assignment of Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas "illegal" - PDP

The PDP labelled the assignment of an unelected individual, Vice Admiral Ibas, to instrumentality implicit authorities successful Rivers authorities arsenic amerciable and "a wide look for crisis, menace to the peace, and stableness of not lone Rivers authorities but the full nation."

The party, therefore, cautioned Ibas to respect the constitution.

Rivers govt speaks arsenic Tinubu suspends Fubara

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Rivers authorities said it is aboriginal to marque comments connected the statesmanlike declaration of a authorities of exigency successful the state.

Joseph Johnson, commissioner of accusation and communications, said it was excessively hasty for the authorities to instrumentality immoderate position.

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