Nigeria is facing a political crisis after President Bola Tea Nubu has declared an emergency in the Rivers and has suspended the president of the state parliament for six months and his parliamentary member.
On Tuesday evening, TINUBU said, “The governor has received a detailed security report on the destruction of some armed forces without any action to reduce them.”
He added that he could not continue the “grave situation.”
But lawyers and opposition politicians have questioned the legitimacy of the president’s decision.
Tinubu made a presentation after trans-niger pipeline, one of the highest production crude oil pipelines in the United States, suffered significant damage due to the explosion.
In the past, attacks on pipelines were carried out by criminal organizations or armed forces to stop production and exports.
The oil flowing through the current price is about $ 14 million (11 million pounds) a day. According to the online publication African report.
But compared to the background of the explosion, there was a political crack that reached boiling point in Rivers.
The Governor of Siminalayi Fubara is a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who suffered from reporting. At the national level, PDP is a major party that opposes all the president’s progressive council.
Tinubu said politicians can’t work together because of their continued confusion. He insisted that Fubara’s allies threatened the “fire and sulfur” against the governor’s enemies and “did not destroy it.”
According to Reuters, Reverse lawmakers threatened to impeach the governor and his deputy.
Tinubu added that due to this political crisis, the Rivers State is based on the necessity of restoring peace and order for the state.
Emergency status is allowed for the government to operate the state in the middle and send a security forces if necessary.
However, many groups see Tinubu’s actions as Draco Nian.
The Nigerian Lawyers’ Association (NBA) said it was “unconstitutional” to remove the elected governors, deputy chiefs, or parliamentarians.
The PDP refused the emergency rules and called it an attempt at the “main capture”. It accused Tinubu that he tried to turn Nigeria into a daily country.
“Forcing the Rivers State is the only peak of the conspiracy,” he said.
Peter OBI, former Labor Party presidential candidate, criticized the movement described as “reckless” in X.
This is not the first time an emergency has been declared in Nigeria. The former president relied on action to curb rebellion and instability in other regions of the state.
NKECHI OGBONNA’s additional report
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