IMPOSITION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY: A DANGEROUS TREND IN THE ART OF GOVERNANCE
It is now abundantly clear that
President Jonathan
has finally bared his fangs confirming what was
widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and
Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these
States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and
a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan
administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable
conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised
intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is
clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship
geared towards 2015. Borno and Yobe states have