Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly condemned the state of emergency declared on Rivers by President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu had on Tuesday suspended Rivers governor, Siminalayi Fubara for six months.
The President also suspended the Rivers House of Assembly for six months. But in a statement released on his X handle few hours after the declaration, Atiku said there is no way Tinubu could absolve himself from the crisis in Rivers.
He added that the declaration of “a state of emergency in Rivers State reeks of political manipulation and outright bad faith”
Anyone paying attention to the unfolding crisis knows that Bola Tinubu has been a vested partisan actor in the political turmoil engulfing Rivers.
“His blatant refusal or calculated negligence in preventing this escalation
