Governors as dictators
The coronavirus pandemic has provided an excuse for democratically elected governors to wear the toga of dictatorship, and act arbitrarily without remorse. The most assertive of the recent undemocratic conducts took place in Rivers State where Governor Nyesom Wike, by an executive fiat, directed bulldozers to pull down a private property allegedly used for an unlawful purpose.
Perhaps, because by virtue of the immunity clause in the 1999 constitution , the governor cannot be sued in his personal capacity because of the infraction. In Abacha vs Fawehinmi F.W.L.R. 594, Pt. 4; the Supreme Court per Ogundare JSC held: “The immunity granted under section 267 of the 1979 constitution relates to civil or criminal proceedings where a suit is commenced against such an official in his personal capacity.
In the northern part of our country, especially, Kano State, the governors are exhibiting their dictatorial conducts in the handling of the almajiri saga. Some of them treat the children like sh*t, while some others treat them as disposal items. In a manner that may come to haunt the entire country, the children many of whom may have been infected by the coronavirus pandemic, are being dispersed to every part of the country like an essential commodity.
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