Can Rivers Hold LG Election Under Emergency Rule?

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Does the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (rtd), have the constitutional power to conduct local government election under an emergency rule where democracy is under suspension? Ejiofor Alike asks


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s the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas (rtd.)  constitutionally empowered to conduct local government elections without first allowing the state to return to the control of an elected governor, elected lawmakers and other democratic institutions and structures that were suspended by President Bola Tinubu in his emergency declaration?

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