TINUBU: STATE OF EMERGENCY, A DANGEROUS TREND

Former Lagos State Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said the imposition of emergency rule in three states is a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
He said in a statement from his media office yesterday that by declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, President Jonathan has “intimidated and emasculated” the governors of these states.  “The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015,” Tinubu said.

“Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.”
Tinubu, who is also national leader of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), added that “Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. 
“It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.”

Source: Daily Trust