There are speculations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is under intense pressure from prominent Nigerians and abroad over the current emergency rule in Rivers state. President Tinubu may reinstate the suspended governor, Siminalayi Fubara, by May 29.
Former member of the house of representatives, Prince Ogbonna Nwuke, , according to a report, said: “I think as a democrat, the president should use the May 29, which is a big day in our country’s political history, to convince the whole world that he is indeed a true democrat, by reinstating Governor Fubara, his deputy and the House of Assembly”.
On her part, spokesperson for the Ijaw Republican Assembly (IRA), Ann Kio Briggs, expressed her belief that the reinstatement of Fubara on May 29 would make more sense to the people of the state.
She said: “He has to be reinstated on May 29, being Democracy Day, so that the governor can join his colleague governors to celebrate his second year in office”.
Briggs explained that the entire Rivers people would appreciate President Tinubu if he could “bring back our governor on May 29.
“That is our Democracy Day. It will bring a lot of succour to the people of the State who have suffered as a result of the crisis in the past two years”, she added.
