PDP governors urge Supreme Court to halt Rivers emergency rule

Governors from the Peoples Democratic Party have petitioned the Supreme Court to dispute President Bola Tinubu’s authority to suspend a state’s democratically elected government.

The governors’ lawsuit also contests Rivers State’s proclamation of a state of emergency.

The governor’s petition was only submitted before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, despite earlier media reports that it had already been filed there.

The governors, in the suit marked: SC/CV/329/2025, predicated the summon on eight grounds.

The plaintiffs in the suit are – Adamawa, Enugu, Osun, Oyo, Bauchi, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Delta, Taraba, Zamfara, and Bayelsa states.

The plaintiffs urged the Supreme Court to determine if the President had the powers to suspend a democratically elected structure of a state.

They also asked the apex court to determine if the way and manner the President pronounced the state of emergency declaration in Rivers State was not in contravention of the 1999 Constitution.