Nigeria, March 22 -- With the recent declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers States, Nigerians find themselves in the most discomfited circumstance. Their democracy is halting as its core tenets and pillars are continually eroded. The state of her democracy is now critical and tending discernibly towards being hopeless. What is true and real of Nigeria is that the unfolding State failure has been a gradual process.

In her constitutional governance history, no singular event has epitomized the injurious and disquieting state of Nigeria's democracy than the grossly unconstitutional declaration of a State of Emergency in Rivers States. The intent, premise and process were all wrong - all very unconstitutional. President Bola Tinubu was ...