Rivers emergency rule will end as soon as sanity is restored, says FG

Rivers emergency rule will end as soon as sanity is restored, says FG

Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national
orientation, says President Bola Tinubu will end the emergency rule in Rivers
as soon as normalcy returns to the state.

 

Idris spoke in an interview with The Nation newspaper.

 

“As soon as he assesses that sanity has returned to Rivers
state, he will ensure the restoration of all democratic structures in that
state,” he said.

 

He added that “the president will not wait a minute longer
than necessary”.

 

The minister said there were no ulterior motives behind the
president’s proclamation.

 

“The president has no intention whatsoever to take over the
governance of Rivers state. He has no intention to be or to appoint a governor
for Rivers state,” Idris said.

 

According to the minister, governance in Rivers had utterly
broken down requiring Tinubu to take “a very responsible but very painful”
action “in line with constitutional provisions”.

 

“The way democracy is designed in this country is that the
three arms of government must work together, and one will be checking the
other,” Idris added.

 

“So, we cannot have just the executive functioning and say
we have a functional democracy. We didn’t have that, and therefore, the
president had to act.”

Source: Rivers emergency rule will end as soon as sanity is restored, says FG

 - NigerianEye

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