National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, in this interview speaks on salient national issues including the state of emergency declared recently in Rivers state by President Bola Tinubu and politics in his home state, Osun. Hammed Shittu brings excerpts:
What’s your take on the recent declaration of state of emergency in Rivers state by President Bola Tinubu?
You see there was nothing President Bola Tinubu can do under that circumstances than to declare a state of emergency in that state because the president has given the parties involved an opportunity to be statesmen and resolve the matter. Even the Supreme Court, the highest Court in the land, had made pronouncement that there was no government in Rivers state again because Governor Siminilayi Fubara was running the state without the House of Assembly.