{"id":124433,"date":"2025-12-15T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=124433"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:55:54","slug":"supreme-court-backs-tinubu-on-emergency-rule-suspension-of-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/supreme-court-backs-tinubu-on-emergency-rule-suspension-of-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Backs Tinubu on Emergency Rule, Suspension of Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1851580208470209426\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1851580208470209426-header\" class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1851580208470209426-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court has affirmed President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s constitutional authority to declare a state of emergency and temporarily suspend elected officials in a state facing breakdown of law and order.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex court, in a 6-1 split decision, dismissed a suit filed by Adamawa State and 10 other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governed states challenging the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State earlier this year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six-month emergency, declared in March 2025 amid political crisis, led to the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, the deputy governor Prof. Ngozi Odu and members of the State House of Assembly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delivering the lead majority judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris held: &#8220;Section 305 of the Constitution empowers the President to deploy extraordinary measures to restore normalcy where emergency rule is declared.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Idris noted that the section does not specify the exact nature of these measures, thereby granting the President discretion in addressing the crisis. He added that such suspensions must be limited in duration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court first struck out the suit for lack of jurisdiction, ruling that the plaintiffs &#8220;failed to establish any cause of action capable of activating the original jurisdiction of the apex court.&#8221; Despite this, the majority proceeded to address the merits and dismissed the case.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a dissenting opinion, Justice Obande Ogbuinya argued that while the President can declare an emergency, &#8220;the President cannot use such power as a tool to suspend elected state officials, including governors, deputy governors, and members of parliament.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling upholds the actions taken during the Rivers State emergency, which had already lapsed in September 2025, with elected officials reinstated.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_2734673543431518168ymail_android_signature\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa The Supreme Court has affirmed President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s constitutional authority to declare a state of emergency and temporarily suspend elected officials in a state facing breakdown of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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