Omoyele Sowore, the former presidential candidate of the AAC, has reacted after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State and suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy along with members of Rivers House of Assembly.
Speaking in an interview with Arise TV from 5:14, Sowore said when Tinubu was governor of Lagos State, he warned the president at the time (Olusegun Obasanjo) that declaring a state of emergency in Lagos would mark the end of democracy. He said it is surprising that now, as president, Tinubu has done exactly what he once strongly opposed.
In Omoyele Sowore’s words: “This same President Tinubu when he was Lagos State governor promised the president of Nigeria then (Olusegun Obasanjo) that if he declared a state of emergency in Lagos that would be the end of democracy. He is president now and he has done it with absolute power”