Timeline Of Emergency Rule In Nigeria Since 1999

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Nigeria experienced a number of state-level cases of emergency rule as a result of its return to democracy in May 1999.

According to Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution, three presidents, including Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, and Bola Tinubu, have declared state of emergency and suspended democratically elected governors.

A state of emergency is defined as a state of national danger, disaster, or terrorist attack where the government suspends routine constitutional procedures to regain control, according to the section.

President Bola Tinubu and former president Goodluck Jonathan on Friday, October 27, 2023, during his visit to the president.

The President has the right to make any necessary laws to protect public safety and order while in a state of emergency.

A timeline of Nigeria’s emergency rule since 1999 can be found here.

1. The elected governor Joshua Dariye and the State House of Assembly were suspended as a result of Obasanjo’s decision on May 18, 2004, imposing a state of emergency on Plateau State. He charged the governor with failing to put an end to a series of bloodletting clashes between the Plateau State’s Muslim and Christian communities, which has since September 2001 claimed more than 2, 000 lives.

Full Text: Tinubu’s State of Emergency in Rivers State

2. In some local governments in Borno and Plateau States, Jonathan declared a state of emergency on December 31, 2011.

3. Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, the northeast’s three insurgent-ridden states, were declared in a state of emergency on May 14, 2013.