Nigeria, March 24 -- The National Assembly, especially its increasingly beleaguered and embarrassed leadership may consider itself superior to any state legislature. But that superiority complex is increasingly being checked by events elsewhere.

On March 18, 2025, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu dropped his latest clanger when he imposed a state of emergency on Rivers State, suspending the governor and the State House of Assembly for six months. With the military moving into the Government House in Port Harcourt under Ibok Ete-Ibas, Nigerians have been forced to relive the days before 1999 when soldiers clad in khakhi freely desecrated government houses around the country.

The state of emergency imposed by President Tinubu who considers him...