APC chieftain wants state of emergency declared in Rivers ahead of election
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress , Mr Ibrahim Emokpaire has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Rivers ahead of the elections.Emokpaire made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
He noted that this was not the first time soldiers and other security agents would be killed in Rivers. He said that irrespective of the immunity of Rivers State Governor Nysome Wike, the Federal Government should declare a state of emergency in the state. “Nobody, however, highly placed either with immunity or no immunity from any part of the country has the right to kill soldiers without consequences,’’ he said.
He noted that even in the United States of America, with the largest democratic process in the world, would not tolerate one of its soldiers being killed by anybody.
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