Politics
Rivers: Tinubu Meets Administrator Ibas Ahead Of Emergency Rule Expiry.
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, met with the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd), at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, in a closed-door session that lasted over two hours, just as the emergency rule imposed on the oil-rich state winds down in days.
The meeting comes barely two weeks before the September 18 expiration of the six-month state of emergency, which was declared by the President on March 18 following the protracted political crisis that rocked the state.
During the nationwide broadcast that announced the measure, Tinubu had suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and all members of the State House of Assembly for six months, citing Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution to justify the drastic intervention.