Rivers crisis: Tinubu can only wish you well – Falana tells Wike, Fubara

Popular human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's intervention in the crisis in Rivers State is not sanctioned by law.

It is important to note that President Tinubu stepped into the crisis during the conflict between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Federal Capital Territory minister, Nyesom Wike.

The President's involvement helped calm the situation temporarily and led to a peace agreement.

However, Falana emphasized that there is no legal basis for resolving the political crisis.

“I think the President’s intervention in the Rivers political crisis is not backed by any provision of the Constitution mind you,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.

“It’s an extra-legal measure towards the restoration of law and order in that state.

“The President can only wish them well. And if they have taken their battle to the court of law, they just have to follow through and allow the law to take its course. That is what the rule of law is about under a democratic dispensation.

“There is no provision outside the law and that point has to be made abundantly clear to those involved in the crisis in Rivers State,” he said.