Rivers Crisis: Tinubu Can Only Wish You Well – Falana to Wike, Fubara

 

A human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana has said President Bola Tinubu's intervention in the faceoff between Governor Sim Fubara and FCT minister, Nyesom Wike is not constitutional.

 

According to him, the role Tinubu is already playing is “extra-legal”.

 

Recall that President Tinubu at some point waded into the crisis involving Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Federal Capital Territory minister, Nyesom Wike.

 

His intervention led to a peace pact between the parties late last year, a move that was meant to calm the situation in the State.

 

But Falana said there was no provision outside of the law to resolve the political crisis.

“I think the President’s intervention in the Rivers political crisis is not backed by any provision of the Constitution mind you,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

 

“There is no provision outside the law and that point has to be made abundantly clear to those involved in the crisis in Rivers State,” he said.