Nigeria, April 14 -- Tension escalated in Rivers State on Monday as hundreds of women took to the streets of Port Harcourt in a bold rally supporting the declaration of a state of emergency, calling for peace and denouncing the embattled Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

The protest, which came just four days after a pro-Fubara demonstration demanding his reinstatement, painted a sharp contrast in public sentiment as the state's political crisis deepens.

Chanting slogans and wielding placards that read "State of Emergency Is Constitutional," "No Tribal War in Rivers State, No More Fubara," and "We Need Peace, Not Fubara," the women voiced a unified demand: stability over politics.

One of the rally's organisers, Hon. Gladys Nweke, a former Vi...