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Tinubu Suspends Governor Fubara, Declares State of Emergency in Rivers [Video]

March 18, 2025

BREAKING: Tinubu Suspends Governor Fubara, Declares State of Emergency in Rivers [Video]

President Tinubu and Governor Fubara of Rivers State

Tinubu has suspended Governor Fubara and declared a State of Emergency in Rivers.

Epe Insights reports that the President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu has declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, south-south Nigeria.

The President made the announcement in a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday evening, March 18, 2025, over the political crisis and instability in the state.

President Tinubu said the governor of the State, Siminalayi Fubara; his deputy, Ngozi Odu; and all members of the Rivers assembly are “hereby suspended for an initial period of six months”.

“Having soberly reflected on and evaluated the political situation in Rivers State and the Governor and Deputy Governor of Rivers State having failed to make a request to me as President to issue this proclamation as required by section 305(5) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it has become inevitably compelling for me to invoke the provision of section 305 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State with effect from today, 18th March, 2025 and I so do,” President Tinubu said.