The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare, has justified the decision to suspend Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
Speaking in a statement issued on Friday, Dare, who clarified that Fubara was suspended and not removed from office, added that Tinubu had no choice but to intervene in the ongoing crisis.
According to him, the president only performed his moral and legal obligation, as provided by the Constitution in times of emergency.
“In the case of Rivers state, turmoil and crisis had taken over. The rival stakeholders could not see their way toward a resolution. Something had to be done before all became undone.
“In this case, President Tinubu stepped up as was his moral and legal obligation to do. In this case, the Constitution, the blueprint of our democracy spells out the options before the President in dire and emergency circumstances.
“The operative word here is Suspension not removal…there is a 6-month window for the return to normalcy.
“It is in the light below that we must understand that the most appropriate, timely and constitutional option available to Mr. President was the declaration of a state of emergency,” Dare said.
