Nigeria, Dec. 16 -- Yesterday, 15 December, the Supreme Court of Nigeria struck out the suit filed by 11 Governors of states controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the emergency rule imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on 18 March. The suit: AG Adamawa & 10 Ors vs. AG Federation and the National Assembly, was dated 20 March, and filed on 8 April. In March, President Tinubu relying on Section 305 which affirms the powers of the President to declare a state of emergency, went a step further to suspend all democratic structures in Rivers and then appointed Air Vice Marshall Ibok Ette Ibas (rtd) as sole administrator in that state for six months. The sole administrator's tenure expired by September 18,...