Nothing to be gained from declaration of state of emergency(2), by Eric Teniola

From last week, the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on May 29, 1962, summoned an emergency meeting of the Federal House of Representatives which was then the Federal Parliament in Lagos and moved a motion on the Action Group crisis The motion reads thus: “I rise to move the Resolution standing in my name which reads as follows: That in pursuance of section sixty-five of the Constitution of the Federation, it is hereby declared that a state of public emergency exists