{"id":63139,"date":"2025-03-21T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63139"},"modified":"2025-03-21T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T18:31:44","slug":"rivers-emergency-rule-tinubu-acted-in-good-faith-says-apc-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/21\/rivers-emergency-rule-tinubu-acted-in-good-faith-says-apc-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Emergency Rule: Tinubu Acted in Good Faith,\u00a0 Says APC Chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gbenga Adeniyi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Honorable Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has defended President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as a necessary step to restore peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Osogbo on Friday, Oyintiloye, a former member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, said the decision was made in good faith to prevent the worsening political crisis from plunging the state into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed criticisms against the president, insisting that Tinubu acted within the law by invoking Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution to suspend Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, and the state House of Assembly members.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the move was not an attack on democracy but a temporary measure to halt the escalating conflict between Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>He cited recent bomb attacks on oil facilities and rising unrest as clear signs that intervention was needed to prevent economic losses and lawlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Oyintiloye noted that Tinubu is the third Nigerian president to declare a state of emergency, following similar actions by former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan in the past.<\/p>\n<p>He urged all stakeholders to cooperate with the newly appointed administrator, Vice Admiral Ibokette Ibas, and expressed confidence that Rivers State would return to normalcy after the six-month emergency rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gbenga Adeniyi\u00a0 A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Honorable Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has defended President Bola Tinubu\u2019s decision to declare a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as a necessary step to restore peace and stability. Speaking in Osogbo on Friday, Oyintiloye, a former member of the APC Presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63141,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63139\/revisions\/63141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}