{"id":179501,"date":"2025-09-18T20:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T20:50:05","slug":"tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu&#8217;s Emergency Rule Suspension Not a Favor to Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An environmental and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, says President Bola Tinubu has not done any favour to the people of Rivers State with the suspension of the emergency rule.<\/p>\n<p>Briggs made the assertion on Thursday in Port Harcourt, saying President Tinubu unjustly declared the emergency rule in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let\u2019s not mistake one aspect of what has transpired. Fubara has always had the total organic support of the majority of the people of Rivers State of which, I am one of the majority of the women, from market women to all spheres of career women have supported the governor of Rivers state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as you can see, the people of River State are still in support of Siminialayi Fubara. But now, whether that support that we have for him will be allowed to translate into good governance in the governance of the people, into peace, into security, into development that needs to be seen,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said Tinubu has been the problem of the state, adding that he has not done any good to the people.<\/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. An environmental and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, says President Bola Tinubu has not done any favour to the people of Rivers State with the suspension of the emergency rule. Briggs made the assertion on Thursday in Port Harcourt, saying President Tinubu unjustly declared the emergency rule in the state. \u201cBut let\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[18775,254,421,945],"class_list":["post-179501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ann-kio-briggs","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>Tinubu&#039;s Emergency Rule Suspension Not a Favor to Rivers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An environmental and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, says President Bola Tinubu has not done any favour to the pe ...\" \/>\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\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu&#039;s Emergency Rule Suspension Not a Favor to Rivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An environmental and human rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, says President Bola Tinubu has not done any favour to the pe ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T19:42:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-18T20:50:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758216187.706834.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1296\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"703\" \/>\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\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu&#8217;s Emergency Rule Suspension Not a Favor to Rivers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-18T19:42:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-18T20:50:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\"},\"wordCount\":202,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758216187.706834.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ann- Kio Briggs\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/tinubus-emergency-rule-suspension-not-a-favor-to-rivers\",\"name\":\"Tinubu's Emergency Rule Suspension Not a Favor to Rivers - 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