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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PRESIDENT'S POWER TO DECLARE EMERGENCY RULE. (PHOTO).

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 SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PRESIDENT'S POWER TO DECLARE EMERGENCY RULE The  supreme court has affirmed the president's constitutional authority to declare a state of emergency in a state threatened by breakdown of law and order, including the power to temporarily suspend elected officials as an extraordinary measure to restore stability. The seven-man panel of justices of the apex court gave the order in a 6 to 1 split decision on a suit filed by Adamawa state and 10 others challenging president Bola Tinubu's march 18, 2025 declaration of emergency rule in Rivers state.  The declaration had led to the six-month suspension of the state's governor, deputy governor, and members of the house of assembly amid prolonged political crisis and security concerns. Although the court initially dismissed the suit on jurisdictional grounds, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to establish a sufficient cause of action invoking its original jurisdiction, it proceeded to address the substanti...

GBADEBO RHODES-VIDOUR CLINCHES LABOUR PARTY GUBER TICKET .(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE

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GBADEBO RHODES-VIDOUR CLINCHES LABOUR PARTY GUBER TICKET  The desire of the youths to drive a revolution through their votes in 2023 election, has once more paid off with the election of 39 years old Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour as the governorship candidate of Labour Party in the substitution governorship election of the party, held on Wednesday 10th August, 2022. Gbadebo who evinced the new face of hope of the teeming Lagos youths, polled 111 to defeat his much older opponent, Alhaji Moshood Salvado who polled 102 in the keenly contested primaries, observed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and members of Labour Party National Executive Committee by the Deputy National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Lamidi Bashiru Apapa. In his victory speech, Gbadebo pledges to run an all-inclusive campaign cum government, when elected governor of Lagos State to build a Lagos State that works for all. He further opined that he will close ranks with all blocks in the party especiall...