{"id":157334,"date":"2025-03-31T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:15:03","slug":"rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"Rivers: \u2018Don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria\u2019 Dele Momodu knocks Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has blasted President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as anti-democratic.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months, in addition to declaring a state of emergency due to the political crisis in the oil-rich state.<\/p>\n<p>The move, however, was met with backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television on Monday, Momodu joined a long list of personalities across the country in criticizing the president\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is very unfortunate. I know President Tinubu very, very well. Though I\u2019ve not been in the same party with him and all that, we were together in exile, and he fought gallantly for this democracy. So a lot of us, co-comrades at that time, are actually very embarrassed that we have a pro-democracy leader in government, and yet what we are witnessing is worse than dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleading with President Bola Tinubu: \u2018Please don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria.\u2019 Everybody who loves him will tell him this. I\u2019ve not asked him for anything, but we love him for his contributions to the movement in the past, which is now going down the drain,\u201d Momodu said.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of intimidating the opposition, warning Tinubu to be cautious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying it now openly to millions of Nigerians that people are deceiving President Tinubu, and he should not allow them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should just do his job. The only thing that can guarantee a second term is to do your job well. You do not need to intimidate anybody,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has blasted President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing it as anti-democratic. Tinubu suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers State House of Assembly for six months, in addition to declaring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":157333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7616,254,421,945],"class_list":["post-157334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dele-momodu","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers: \u2018Don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria\u2019 Dele Momodu knocks Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has blasted President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a stat ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers: \u2018Don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria\u2019 Dele Momodu knocks Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dele Momodu, has blasted President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a stat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-31T19:41:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T14:15:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1743438055.777048.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers: \u2018Don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria\u2019 Dele Momodu knocks Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-31T19:41:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T14:15:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1743438055.777048.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Dele Momodu\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-dont-kill-democracy-in-nigeria-dele-momodu-knocks-tinubu\",\"name\":\"Rivers: \u2018Don\u2019t kill democracy in Nigeria\u2019 Dele Momodu knocks Tinubu - 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