State of Emergency not threat to democracy, warning to governors to sit tight - Ladoja

Former governor Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja of Oyo State has faulted the controversy trailing the declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu.

According to him, the declaration is not a threat to democracy as being speculated in some quarters.

Ladoja, while addressing newsmen at his Bodija residence shortly after the Eld-el-Fitri prayers, at his Bodija residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, insisted that Tinubu did not violated any law with the declaration.

The Otun Olubadan of Ibadanland explained that the president has his own reason for taking the controversial decision.

He added that the state of emergency provide the warring parties to resolve their differences before the deadline for the state of Emergency.

According to him, the leading actors in the political crisis, especially Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and the suspended Governor Siminialayi Fubara, must burry their hatchet, sit together and chart a way forward for the oil rich state.

“The state of emergency in Rivers State is not a threat to democracy at all. The President has his reason for doing it. It is not a threat to democracy. 

“Now, there is relative peace in Rivers State.

“I believe everything will be stabilised in the next six months.

“It is now time for Wike and Fubara to sit down and talk and say what are we fighting for? They should sit down and talk.

“They should use this period of emergency to settle their differences in the interest of the state. They should say, what are we fighting for? Why are we fighting?”

Ladoja, however, said the declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers State is a warning to other State governors to sit tight.