… insists that Tinubu has no powers to suspend a democratically chosen governor
The Democratic Party of the Opposition Peoples (PDP) has condemned the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for his decision to declare an emergency state in the state of Rivers, describing him as a blunt acquisition of the State for his party.
Tribune online He informs that Tinubu, while reacting to the new turns to the prolonged political crisis in the state of Rivers in a national transmission on Tuesday, declared an emergency rule in the state.
But the PDP, in a statement from Debo omologunagba, its secretary of National Advertising, said that the President's action is a violation of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 (1999), saying that Tinubu is trying to annul the Constitution and undermine the votes and will of the people of the rivers by appointing an administrator.
According to the main opposition party, the suspension of Governor Sim Fubara for an unique administrator is an attack on the democracy of the nation.
“The unconstitutional statement of President Tinubu's suspension of the democratically elected governor of the state of Rivers, Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the appointment of an unique individual, the vice -waring Ibokette Ibas (RTD) to govern the State is a clear attack against the democracy of our nation, an abrogation of the vote and democratic right of the people of the people of the people of their people Leadership
“The action of Mr. President, therefore, limits with the attempt on the capture of the State. It is the climax of a well -greased plot to take the state of Rivers for which the Congress of all progressives (APC) has been determined to enliven the crisis to ensure that democracy is truncated in the state”, the declaration in part according to the declaration.
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Upon urging the President and the Administrator to respect the Constitution of the Nation, the PDP also declared that the reasons adduced by Tinubu as responsible for the state of emergency did not justify the situation in the State.
“The Nigerians are invited to take into account that the situation in the state of Rivers and the reasons adduced by the President cannot justify the declaration of an emergency state in the State under the 1999 Constitution, which makes the declaration completely incompetent.
“The PDP warns that the unjustified imposition of the emergency rule in the state of Rivers is part of the largest and most vicious plot to impose a siege mentality in Nigeria, the tenma opposition, imposes a totalitarian state of a part and makes the country a fief.
“In any case, nothing in section 305 of the 1999 Constitution based by the President in the Declaration grants him the exclusive powers to declare or execute the statement of state of emergency without resorting to the legal approval of the National Assembly.
“To avoid doubts, section 305 (2) establishes that“ the president immediately after the publication will transmit copies of the Official Gazette of the Government of the Federation that contains the proclamation, including the details of the emergency to the president of the Senate and the president of the House of Representatives, each of which can be seen or decide or decide to a meeting of the Chamber of the Chamber of the President, since it may be situation or deciding the house of the camera of which it is the case of the caste, and if the case may be the case of the situation, since it can consider the caste of the caste, and if the case may be the case of the caste, and if the case can be the case of the situation, since it can consider the caste of the house of the camera, so that the situation can consider, since it can consider the situation of the House of Representatives. Resolution approving the proclamation ”.
“Mr. President must recognize that his order so that an individual is not chosen to be responsible for the government of the State of Rivers is illegal and a clear recipe for the crisis, the threat to peace and stability not only of the state of Rivers but of the entire nation.
“By emphasis, Governor Fubara was democratically chosen for a four -year mandate, which the tenure cannot be unconstitutionally summarized.
“Therefore, the PDP warns of the Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas (RTD) to respect the Constitution and ensure that it does not take any action or step that is able to derail a soft democratic governance in the state of Rivers. Nigeria is not under a military rule where the government of a State is appointed by a Board,” the declaration added more.
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