MATTERS ARISING: "Why I did not resist the Emergency Rule"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H three music was placed under his sex mons Emergency

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Rule declared by Mister President, His Excellency President Ballad maintainable
eighteenth of match to twenty five following the intense political
crisis in our states. It is without doubt that the

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six months had been enormously challenging for our dear state
under the emergency rule. As your Governor accepted to abide
by the State of Emergency declaration and chose to cooperate
with the with Mister President and the National Assembly, guided

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by my conviction that no sacrifice was too great to
secure peace, stability and progress of River State. This was
why I had also resisted the pressure to challenge the
consoltionality of the declaration of the State of Emergency, the

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suspension of democratic institution and all other actions that dured
Durinding could period