- President Bola Tinubu has been knocked for reinstating the 27 lawmakers who dumped the PDP for the APC in the Rivers state house of assembly
- Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer and SAN, said the president’s action was alien to Nigeria’s constitution
- Falane said the INEC has the constitutional mandate to conduct by-elections for the seats of the lawmakers earlier declared vacant by the constitutionally recognised speaker of the house
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Port Harcourt, Rivers – President Bola Tinubu has received more knocks than praise in his intervention in the political crisis rocking Rivers state as the rift between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, went deeper.