The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has told President Bola Tinubu that he lacks the constitutional powers to remove any elected governor of a state in Nigeria.
Besides, the umbrella body for legal practitioners in the country held that Tinubu’s Tuesday night declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State “remains constitutionally inchoate and ineffective” until the National Assembly approves the declaration.
In a statement issued to journalists on Tuesday night, the NBA President, Mazi Afam Osigwe, SAN, observed that the action of Mr. President has far-reaching constitutional and democratic implications, particularly in light of the provisions of Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, which governs the procedure for the proclamation of a state of emergency and which the President purported to have relied upon.
While stating that Section 305 of the Constitution indeed vests the President…
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