Lawyer Sue Tinubu, AGF, wants an emergency to be stated in Zamfara for the Assembly Crisis

Two legal practitioners, Reuben Boma and Okoro Nwadiegwu, have approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, looking for orders that forced the President of Tinubu Bola to declare an emergency in the state of Zamfara for the current crisis shaking the State Council of the Council.

In the suit marked fhc/abj/cs/1363/2025, filed on July 8 by Goddy Uche (San) on Behalf of Boma and Nwadiegwu and the Incorporated Trustees of One Love Foundation, The Plaintiffs Also Also Prayed The Court to Direct the National Legislative Function for the State, insisting that the state assembly is not properly constituted due to suspension of 10 of its members and its inability to form a legal quorum to do the legislative business.

Also joining the lawsuit as the defendant was the Attorney General Federation (AGF), Lateef Fagbemi, Chairperson of the House of Representatives, the Attorney General for the State of Zamfara, and the Governor of the State Zamfara.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff asked four constitutional questions to be resolved by the court, centered on whether the current legislative, political and security details in Zamfara confirmed emergency interventions under the 42, 92, 98, 100, 103, 104, 109, and 305 from the constitution 1999 (as changed).

They further argued that the suspension of 10 members of the Zamfara State Council had paralyzed the legislature, leaving it without the quorum needed to carry out official businesses, thus creating a vacancy in government.

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The lawyers insisted that Zamfara faced legal disorders and orderly and the collapse of legislative governance, which threatened not only the state but also national stability, warning that further delays in federal interventions could damage democracy and rule of law in the country.

“Whether by the provisions of the constitution, either expressly or by implications of its provisions, whether it authorizes the president of the federal republic of nigeria, by proclamation published in the federal government government gazette as statutory instruments Without Removal of Office of the Governor and Deputy or otherwise and whether and whether the exercise of such powers is not contained in section 305 (1), (2), (3) A, B, C of the Constitution of the Federal Republic Nigeria 1999 as changed in (2011), “said the lawyer.

Whether with the interpretation of Article 11 (4) and 305 Nigerian Federal Republican Constitution, new security challenges and important legislative crisis in the Zamfara State Council and or outside, because of the suspension that does not exist in the behavior of states and countries that cannot be imposed by countries that cannot be controlled by state countries and state laws that cannot be experienced by states and or abilities. Take over the legislative business function in the Zamfara State Council for the best interests of public peace, justice, democracy, and calm.

“This honorable court orders mandated the National Council of the Federal Nigerian Republic of the Federal Nigeria to take over the Zamfara State Council for the best interests of justice, peace, democracy and for the good and progress of both from the state of Zamfara and the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” they added.