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I Did Not Receive Any Warning - Tinubu

This Day (Lagos)
NEWS
May 21, 2004
Posted to the web May 21, 2004

By Shaka Momodu
Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has refuted newspaper reports that the
President had given a notice of warning to the state along with some other
states of the federation.
Governor Tinubu who spoke with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport
Ikeja on arrival from an emergency meeting at Abuja noted that he had received
no verbal or written warning nor was the peaceful atmosphere in the state
threatened to warrant such action.
According to him the various religious and tribal conflagrations witnessed
early in the life of the administration, along with the bomb explosion had
adequately prepared the state government for the proper management of crisis
and disasters.
Saying Lagos had managed past problems creditably, the Governor said the views
he expressed concerning the declaration of a State of Emergency in Plateau
State was not about the action but the removal of the Governor and the
suspension/dissolution of the democratic apparatus.
According to him while the President in exercise of the powers in Section 305
of the Constitution can declare a State of Emergency based on his perception of
events, the removal of the Governor and State House of Assembly are
unconstitutional since the Constitution does not give the powers of dissolution
to the President.

   

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