Nigeria, April 14 -- The Because Of Our Tomorrow (BOOT) Party and its top officials have sued President Bola Tinubu and the Nigerian government at the Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, over the suspension of Rivers State's democratically elected officials under an emergency rule recently imposed on the oil-rich state.

They urged the court to declare that the president "cannot take over the control and the functions of the democratically elected government of a State" under the guise of a proclamation of a state of emergency.

The plaintiffs argued that the imposition of a "Sole Administrator" to rule any state is unknown to the Nigerian constitution.

The party and its officials urged the court to declare as "null and void" t...