President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerians to shelve the proposed nationwide protest against bad governance to commence 1st of August.
Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris conveyed the president’s plea while speaking with State House correspondents after a meeting with Tinubu on Tuesday.
Idris said the current administration wants the organisers of the protest to cancel the plan and await the President’s response to their complaints.
He said; “The issue of the planned protest, Mr President does not see any need for that. He’s asked them to shelve that plan. He’s asked them to await the government’s response to all their pleas.
“A lot is happening, only today National Assembly passed the new national minimum wage bill. You can see the president is working”.
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Ohanaeze Ndigbo earlier advised Igbo youths against joining the planned nationwide protest over the economic hardship Nigerians are facing under the President Bola Tinubu-led government.
In a statement released on Monday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, Ohanaeze said Igbos have always been secluded, in government appointments and decisios yet it did not lead to casualties in the south-east.
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization said the current economic hardship in Nigeria is “the comeuppance of Igbophobia” and ethnic bigotry against the Igbo.
The statement reads in part; “Ohanaeze Ndigbo seizes this opportunity to reiterate our position with respect to the widely publicized nationwide protest scheduled for the days of August, 2024…
“Finally, the Igbo are once again requested not to join the forthcoming nationwide protest. When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed about 15 service chiefs in Nigeria and Igbo was secluded, did the lopsided policy abate the security situation in Nigeria? And have we died? And many more? It was Robert Schuller who posited that “Tough times never last but tough people do.”
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