Former presidential spokesman Laolu Akande says Siminalayi Fubara should be the first to challenge his suspension as River State governor by President Bola Tinubu.
According to Akande, Tinubu would have swiftly approached the Supreme Court if a president had suspended him when he was Lagos State governor between May 1999 to May 2007. Tinubu, who was in the opposition whilst as Lagos governor, was recorded to have challenged the seizure of local government funds by the then-President Olusegun Obasanjo government.
The former presidential aide said Fubara should not have waited for seven governors of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to institute a suit before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, challenging his six-month suspension.
Akande lamented that Fubara lacked courage, adding that it is illegal for an elected president to suspend an elected governor of a state in the way it was done.