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The enforcement of emergency rule as an alternative conflict resolution and management strategy in Nigeria has attracted controversies and criticisms over its relevance, interpretation, and application. Despite the observed defects and failures associated with previous enforcement in the Western region in 1962, Plateau State in 2004, and Ekiti State in 2006, President Goodluck Jonathan after initial refusal to heed various agitations, later declared state of emergency in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe states largely enveloped by the “Boko Haram” insurgence. While the communitarians who advance emergency rule as an option for peace argued that the welfare of the collective or community must be valued over any individual rights or liberties; the libertarians criticised emergency rule because it deprives certain people of their civil rights. Without prejudice to the arguments of the communitarians and the libertarians, but in the light of the organic theory, it is argued that emergency rule can scarcely resolve crisis permanently especially the ones that are organic and historical in nature because they deal with core issues and interests that are hardly separable and negotiable. Hence, though the emergency rules declared in Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states may force momentary stoppage of the crisis in the affected areas as in past cases, it may not bring a permanent solution especially if the causes are not adequately addressed.

A Critique of Emergency Rule as a Security Strategy for Conflict Management and Resolution in Nigeria