Rivers Crisis: Group seeks UN’s intervention to save democracy in Nigeria

By Bayo WahabA civil society group, Save Democracy Vanguard, has written to the United Nations over the declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State.In the letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary-General and signed by Dr. Ali Mohammed Ali, Executive Director of the group, Save Democracy Vanguard described the situation in Rivers as a national emergency and accused the Federal Government of allowing the illegal suspension of democracy in Nigeria’s oil-rich state.The group warned