The Deputy National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Timothy Osadolor, has called on President Bola Tinubu to apologise for suspending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara earlier in the year.
Speaking in Abuja on Wednesday, Osadolor accused the President of exceeding his constitutional authority by declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State, which led to the temporary suspension of Fubara, his deputy, and members of the state assembly.
He argued that the President’s action undermined the principle of separation of powers and posed a dangerous precedent for Nigeria’s democracy.
“Yes, I think the President is overreaching when I read the last paragraph of his speech, where he spoke to governors as if he were a headmaster in a classroom. He should apologise. I felt he should understand fully well that there is a clear division of powers,” Osadolor stated.
President Tinubu lifted the six-month state of emergency in Rivers on Wednesday, reinstating Governor Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Nma Odu, and the state assembly.
