Nigeria, March 20 -- President Bola Tinubu, by declaring a state of emergency in Rivers State, may have saved Governor Siminalayi Fubara from being impeached, a senior official has said.

The Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi, stated this on Wednesday while answering reporters' questions at the State House, Abuja.

"It appears so (that Mr Tinubu saved Mr Fubara from impeachment)," Mr Fagbemi said when a reporter asked him the question.

"Don't forget, I think yesterday (Tuesday), there was a notice of impeachment from the House of Assembly. If that impeachment had been allowed to take its full course, then the governor would have lost wholly and entirely."

The senior lawyer said the state of emergency declared by the pre...