Honestly, I think Tinubu’s emergency rule kinda just put a band-aid on things in Rivers State. Sure, it stopped the whole situation from going off the rails, but from what I read, the governor and his rivals are still fighting. Like, Fubara (the suspended governor) thanked Tinubu for saving the state from chaos and said peace talks are happening, but it sounds more like temporary calm than a real solution.

I remember seeing my parents argue that whenever leaders use emergency powers, it usually doesn’t fix the real problems—just makes everything quiet for a while. The crisis in Rivers was about bigger stuff: political beef, loyalists picking sides, and even protests breaking out. Now with emergency rule, it's like they hit the pause button, but no one has actually sorted out what's making everyone fight. Fubara says he's trying to reconcile and promising forgiveness, but unless people actually agree on something, I don’t really see the crisis being properly solved. So yeah, it feels like things can pop off again once the emergency rule ends if nobody changes their ways.