SUSPENSION OF EMERGENCY RULE: Tinubu has not favoured Rivers people -Briggs

By Davies Iheamnachor

PORT HARCOURT: A renowned Environmental and Human Rights Activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has said that President Bola Tinubu has not done immoderate favour to the radical of Rivers State with the suspension of the Emergency Rule helium imposed connected the state.

Briggs, who spoke successful Port Harcourt Thursday, said President Tinubu unjustly declared the exigency regularisation successful the state, adding that the restoration of the antiauthoritarian regularisation astatine the extremity of the six months play cannot beryllium seen arsenic favour done to the state.

Briggs noted that Fubara has to afloat enactment of the radical of the state, noting that the backing is natural.

She expressed fears if the enactment the politician is enjoying tin beryllium allowed to beryllium translated into bully governance.

Briggs said: “But let’s not mistake 1 facet of what has transpired. Fubara has ever had the full integrated enactment of the bulk of the radical of Rivers State of which, I americium 1 of the bulk of the women, from marketplace women to each spheres of vocation women person supported the politician of Rivers state.

“And arsenic you tin see, the radical of River State are inactive successful enactment of Siminialayi Fubara. But now, whether that enactment that we person for him volition beryllium allowed to construe into bully governance successful governance of the people, into peace, into security, into improvement that needs to beryllium seen.”

She noted that President Tinubu has been the occupation of the state, adding that helium has not done immoderate bully to the state.

Briggs said: “You can’t person bid without having Justice connected ground. And truthful far, the radical of Rivers State request thing but Justice. And so, wherever we are today? The president, for immoderate reason, helium has believed, has been portion of our problem.

‘You see, erstwhile radical assertion that determination is reconciliation, it’s similar it’s a aboveground thing. So if determination is reconciliation, what is the contented on.

“Again Siminialayi Fubura is the politician of Rivers State. But, Fubara has had six months caught disconnected from his governance, similar Government was caught disconnected by six months and Peter Obi claimed backmost his six months, you know?

“I’m amazed that Rivers radical person been told to springiness up their rights and their work to themselves due to the fact that of politics. So wherefore are we successful politics, if that is what is expected from us?

“Look, determination is nary favour that has been done to the radical of Rivers State. Today, the 18th of September 2025, nary favour has been done to america due to the fact that we person suffered for six months and the president sought with that, we went done this suffering, we are not the radical that created the problem.

“The occupation was betwixt the erstwhile politician and the contiguous politician and determination is assertion that determination was statement and statement wherever Rivers radical did not spell into an undertaking With the erstwhile Governor of Rivers State oregon the contiguous politician of Rivers State, the lone expectations Rivers radical person for the politician of Rivers State. Fubara is for him to govern Rivers State and present dividends of ideology to the radical of Rivers State.”

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