Former Secretary General of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Anthony Sani has decried the refusal of the Supreme Court to address the case brought by some governors before it over declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State.
The elder statesman however, welcomed the suspension of the emergency rule on Wednesday by President Bola Tinubu.
Recall that governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had approached the Supreme Court to challenge President Tinubu’s power to suspend the democratically elected governor in the state.
Sani who spoke with our correspondent while reacting to the lifting of emergency rule in Rivers on Wednesday, said the Supreme Court’s judgement would have improved the rule of law in the country’s multiparty democracy.
He said, “If the state of emergency in Rivers State has stabilised and brought normalcy to the politics of Rivers State, there is nothing wrong in the president’s decision not to extend the emergency whose aims and objectives have come unto their own.
“My only grouse is with the Supreme Court which has not addressed the concerns by some governors as to whether the emergency was constitutional or not. The Supreme Court’s judgement would have improved the rule of law in our multiparty democracy.”
Sani congratulated Rivers State and the people over the lifting of the emergency rule, saying, “They should note the fact that democracy is a contest of ideas and reasons, and not bullfight”.
