A human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, has said President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis rocking Rivers State is “extra-legal”.
Recall that President Tinubu at some point waded into the crisis
involving Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Federal Capital Territory
minister, Nyesom Wike.
His intervention led to a peace pact between the parties
late last year, a move that was meant to calm the situation in the State.
But Falana said there was no provision outside of the law to resolve the political crisis.
“I think the President’s intervention in the Rivers
political crisis is not backed by any provision of the Constitution mind you,”
he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“It’s an extra-legal measure towards the restoration of law
and order in that state.
“The President can only wish them well. And if they have
taken their battle to the court of law, they just have to follow through and
allow the law to take its course. That is what the rule of law is about under a
democratic dispensation.
“There is no provision outside the law and that point has to
be made abundantly clear to those involved in the crisis in Rivers State,” he
said.
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