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Rivers: Hopes, mixed views as emergency ends tomorrow

Rivers: Hopes, mixed views as emergency ends tomorrow

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Idowu Bankole
Published on 2025-09-17 05:14:00

By Clifford Ndujihe, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Daniel Abia, John Alechenu & Luminous Jannamike

LAGOS — One day to the end of emergency rule in Rivers State, the polity is awash with expectations.

Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule, are expected to return to their seats tomorrow, if President Bola Tinubu, who cut his 10-day vacation abroad to return to Nigeria yesterday, did not extend the rule.

So far, all appears to be set for the termination of the emergency rule and the reinstatement of elected officials.

Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok Ette Ibas, retd, who has tidied up his handover note, and held a…

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