Party files N20 billion suit against Tinubu, others over Rivers emergency rule

The Because Of Our Tomorrow (BOOT) Party and its top officials have sued President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian government at the Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, over the suspension of Rivers State’s democratically elected officials under an emergency rule recently imposed on the oil-rich state.

They urged the court to declare that the president “cannot take over the control and the functions of the democratically elected government of a State” under the guise of…