The mercury has burst through the threshold on Rivers State’s political thermometer following the recent declaration of a state of emergency by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The President, relying on Section 305 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), suspended the Governor, Deputy Governor, and House of Assembly for six months while appointing a sole administrator to oversee the state’s affairs during that period.
Thus far, there is a feeling in some quarters that the declaration is unreservedly marvelous in all its incarnations that it would take a fool or someone uninformed to raise any objections to it, given the long running political crisis in Rivers State.