{"id":177514,"date":"2025-09-03T13:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:27:10","slug":"rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Nigeria Operating Without Constitution Says Attah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Victor Attah, has described the emergency rule in Rivers State as an affront, stressing that Nigeria is operating as if there is no constitution in the land.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-governor made this statement on Wednesday, while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation in Nigeria is dire. By all indications, the devil has arrived in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one cure we desperately need is to acknowledge that we have strayed from the vision we once agreed upon for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had envisioned Nigeria as a federation, complete with all the essential components of federalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, we have dismantled those components and replaced them with something entirely different,\u201d he said.<\/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 Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Victor Attah, has described the emergency rule in Rivers State as an affront, stressing that Nigeria is operating as if there is no constitution in the land. The ex-governor made this statement on Wednesday, while responding to questions in an interview on Arise Television. \u201cThe situation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[371,18652,254,421],"class_list":["post-177514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-attah","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers"],"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 Nigeria Operating Without Constitution Says Attah - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Victor Attah, has described the emergency rule in Rivers State as an affront, stress ...\" \/>\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-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers Nigeria Operating Without Constitution Says Attah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Victor Attah, has described the emergency rule in Rivers State as an affront, stress ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-03T12:17:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-03T13:27:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756893477.649316.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers Nigeria Operating Without Constitution Says Attah\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-03T12:17:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-03T13:27:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\"},\"wordCount\":136,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1756893477.649316.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akwa Ibom\",\"attah\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-nigeria-operating-without-constitution-says-attah\",\"name\":\"Rivers Nigeria Operating Without Constitution Says Attah - 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