Nigeria, March 27 -- Seven state governments led by governors belonging to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have sued President Bola Tinubu at the Supreme Court over his suspension of Rivers State's democratically elected officials under an emergency rule he recently imposed on the oil-rich state.

The states, through their respective Attorneys-General, urged the court to declare that the president "has no powers whatsoever" to suspend a democratically elected governor and deputy governor of a state under the guise of proclamation of a state of emergency in any state of the federation.

Vanguard Newspaper reported that the plaintiffs equally argued that nothing in the constitutional provisions cited by Mr Tinubu to impose a s...