Tinubu Is Desperate To Whip Opponents To Their Knees — Niger Delta Activist

Tinubu Is Desperate To Whip Opponents To Their Knees — Niger Delta Activist

Niger Delta activist Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe has described President Bola Tinubu’s interventions in the Rivers crisis as part of the ploy to whip political opponents to the knees.

Speaking on Arise TV on Thursday, March 20, 2025, Sara Igbe condemned the suspension of Siminalayi Fubara as Governor of Rivers State, stressing that the president has no power to do so.

The activist also knocked the President for sparing his minister, Nyesom Wike, whom he accused of causing confusion in the Niger-Delta and other parts of the country.

Describing the President’s action as illegal, Sara-Igbe said Tinubu suspended Fubara because he was desperate to decimate opposition parties.

According to him, section 305 which the president applied in suspending Fubara should have been applied in the North where bandits and terrorists are taking lives of Nigerians.

“In the case of Rivers State, there’s no war, no fight, the whole place is quiet and yet a state of emergency was declared. Not only that, an elected governor was suspended, the House of Assembly was also suspended. This is somehow not proper, it’s an illegal action.

“Mr President seems to be desperate to whip opponents to their knees and Wike is the hatchet man of Mr President.”

Prior to Fubara’s suspension, the activist said during Niger-Delta leaders’ meeting with Tinubu, the president blamed Fubara and spared his minister.