Don’t endorse Tinubu’s emergency rule on Rivers, Obi urges National Assembly

Obi said the situation in Rivers does not justify such action by the President. He also accused Tinubu of biased interpretation of section 305(1) of the 1999 constitution. “The declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State is not just reckless—it is a clear attempt to return us to a state of nature and tighten its grip on power at all costs. “It is a degrading back door imposition of martial rule on a strategic part of the federation with all the implied negatives .