ABUJA — The Supreme Court has been informed that Rivers State was without effective governance when the Federal Government declared a state of emergency in the state.
According to a report by The Nation, President Bola Tinubu made the assertion in a joint affidavit filed on May 20 by Mr. Taiye Hussain Oloyede, a Senior Special Assistant to the President at the State House, alongside the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The affidavit, submitted in response to a legal challenge seeking to void the emergency declaration, stated that both the Executive arm and the State House of Assembly in Rivers were embroiled in conflicts, with several lawsuits crippling governance. President Tinubu contended that the Supreme Court had previously acknowledged the governance breakdown in an earlier ruling.
He further argued that the National Assembly endorsed the emergency proclamation and that his intervention was necessary to prevent a descent into anarchy.
