{"id":177235,"date":"2025-09-02T07:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-judiciary-aiding-death-of-democracy-fabiyi"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T07:09:09","slug":"nigerian-judiciary-aiding-death-of-democracy-fabiyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-judiciary-aiding-death-of-democracy-fabiyi","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Judiciary Aiding Death of Democracy Fabiyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Director, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign, Oladimeji Fabiyi, has said that Nigerian judiciary is aiding the death of democracy in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fabiyi made this allegation on Monday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the outcome of the just concluded local governments\u2019 elections in Rivers State, Fabiyi said everything in the state, from the appointment of the Sole Administrator to the local governments\u2019 elections, was completely illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I\u2019d like to say that I am not in alignment with everything that happened in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened in Rivers, you know, all these our entertainers. And you know, when there\u2019s something they call script. It was a script.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then in PDP of today, we have two classes of people. There is a class of those who know what they are doing, and the class of those who don\u2019t know what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be serious in this country. Democracy is under serious threat. Everything in Rivers State in the last six months has been illegal, and we voiced it, we said it, that this is illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like when you lies, you need more lies to cover that lies. That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe illegality from the appointment of the Sole Administrator to what has happened. What happened in Rivers State was completely illegitimate and full of illegality,\u201d he lamented.<\/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. Former Director, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign, Oladimeji Fabiyi, has said that Nigerian judiciary is aiding the death of democracy in the country. Fabiyi made this allegation on Monday while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television. 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