Soyinka finally reacts to Tinubu's state of emergency declaration in Rivers

• Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka, has condemned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's determination to state a authorities of exigency successful Rivers state
• Soyinka faulted President Tinubu's determination to suspend Governor Sim Fubara, his deputy, and the Rivers authorities House of Assembly
• He described President Tinubu's determination arsenic over-excessive during a trending interrogation implicit the weekend

Legit.ng writer Adekunle Dada has implicit 7 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary events

Abeokuta, Ogun state - Nobel Prize winner, Wole Soyinka, has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu implicit the determination to state a authorities of exigency successful Rivers state.

Legit.ng recalls that President Tinubu besides suspended Governor Sim Fubara, his deputy, and the Rivers authorities House of Assembly.

Wole Soyinka condemns President Bola Tinubu’s determination to state a authorities of exigency regularisation successful Rivers state. Photo credit: Asiwaju bola Ahmed Tinubu/Sir Sim Fubara
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Soyinka described President Tinubu’s determination arsenic “over-excessive" and could person been managed successful a amended way.

The 90-year-old stateman stated this during an interrogation connected Channels Television.

He called connected Fubara and each the affected parties to situation their suspension each the mode up to the Supreme Court to ascertain if Tinubu’s determination was ineligible oregon not.

He said helium was amazed astatine the easiness astatine which the nationalist assembly adopted and approved the suspension and authorities of exigency successful Rivers state.

Soyinka accused President Tinubu of not economising connected his exigency powers.

Legit.ng earlier reported that SERAP sued President Tinubu implicit what it described arsenic the unlawful suspension of Fubara and others.

This was contained successful a connection connected Sunday, March 23, by SERAP’s lawman director, Kolawole Oluwadare.

Recall that President Tinubu declared a authorities of exigency successful the oil-rich authorities and suspended the politician and different elected officials for an archetypal play of six months.

Legit.ng besides reported that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) asked President Tinubu to instantly reappraisal the emergency regularisation in Rivers state.

The bluish elders explained that the president’s enactment of suspending elected members of the authorities authorities was disconnected the mark.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the NGF yet explained wherefore it did not remark connected the declaration of a state of exigency and the suspension of Governor Fubara of Rivers State.

Abdulateef Shittu, the manager wide of the NGF, noted that the contented is partisan and the governors belonged to antithetic governmental parties.

President Tinubu announced the authorities of exigency pursuing increasing information hostility implicit the governmental situation successful Rivers State.

Fubara’s adjutant gives caller update connected suspended politician

In a akin story, Legit.ng reported that the Chief Press Secretary to the suspended Rivers governor reacted to societal media reports astir the embattled governor.

Nelson Chukwudi told the radical of Rivers State and Nigerians successful wide to disregard societal media reports astir Fubara.

Chukwudi disclosed that the suspended politician of Rivers State was harmless and doing good contrary to societal media reports.

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Source: Legit.ng