Civil Liberty Organisation has condemned the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, insisting that it was an avoidable contraption if all the parties had acted correctly, timely and promptly.
The Director, Civil Liberty Organisation, Daniel Steve Aluko, in a press statement in Jos on Tuesday said It is on record that like the declaration of state emergency in Plateau State under Governor Dariye and Obasanjo’s Presidency, it is not the same with the one under Tinubu Presidency, saying what has happened is inconsistent with the letter, intents and spirit of the Nigerian constitution.
“It offends all judicial pronouncements of the supreme court. It also offends all indices of democratic governance as celebrated in the recent local government autonomy judgement made by the supreme court to the effect that undemocratic practice is illogical, illegitimate and autocratic under a dispensation of civil democracy.”
He lamented that If the president and minister of FCT have acted in good faith the government and the people of Rivers will not be in this iniquitous quagmire.
“We therefore call on the president to recent this decision in the best interest of our constitution and practice of democracy.
The full return to the sanctity of votes and Democratic governance remain the most civil to resolving the issue, else it can be summed up as captured democracy and clear signs of endangered democracy.
