A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Dele Momodu, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as “anti-democratic”.
In a transfer that was greeted with backlash, Tinubu suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers State Home of Meeting for six months along with the state of emergency owing to the political disaster within the oil-rich state.
Momodu, who was featured as a visitor on Channels Tv’s The Morning Temporary, joined the lengthy checklist of personalities throughout the nation to fault the president’s choice.
“I feel it is rather unlucky. I do know President Tinubu very, very, very properly. Although I’ve not been in the identical occasion [with him] and all that, we have been collectively in exile, and he fought gallantly for this democracy. So a variety of us, co-comrades at the moment, are literally very embarrassed that we have now a pro-democracy chief in authorities, and but what we’re witnessing is worse than dictatorship,” he mentioned on Monday.
“I’m pleading with President Bola Tinubu, ‘Please don’t kill democracy in Nigeria.’ All people who loves him will inform him this. I don’t; I’ve not requested him for something or something, however we love him for his contributions to the motivation within the again, which is what goes down the drain,” Momodu mentioned.
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The PDP chieftain accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of intimidating the opposition, warning him to “watch your again”.
“I’m saying it now overtly to tens of millions of Nigerians that persons are deceiving President Tinubu, and he shouldn’t enable individuals to deceive you,” he mentioned on the present.
“He ought to simply do his job. The one factor that may assure a second time is to do your job properly. You do not want to intimidate anyone.”
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