A former presidential aspirant under the Labour Party and the leader of Rescue Movement For New Nigeria aka Rescue The Vulnerable Initiative, Comrade Faduri Oluwadare Joseph popularly known as Fadojoe has appealed to the youths planning a peaceful protest to keep it peaceful and not to allow thugs highjack the protest to turn it violent.
Fadojoe called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government not to use uniformed men against the peaceful protesters.
He said that, the protest being planned by Nigerians is long overdue and Protest is simply a way of expressing dissatisfaction with the government anywhere in the world, even in America where they have better governance, the people still stage peaceful protests and police will only be out to ensure law and order is maintained. And the government will always give the protesters listening ears as they know they are exercising their right to self-expression.
According to Fadojoe, Democracy being the government of the people, by the people and for the people; means governance is for the masses. The pertinent question to Nigerians is that, irrespective of your tribe and religion, are you better off now than one year ago when president Tinubu took over power? The answer is capital NO!
He expressed with sadness that due to how desperate politicians could be , they went to the extent of attempting to call the planned peaceful protest different names and even mobilized some youths to tag it Igbo or Hausa issue on social media.
He said that, In less than one year that President Tinubu took over, more than 700,000 Nigerians have lost their job, irrespective of their ethnicity. Microsoft and some international companies that have been in Nigeria many years ago, have now left Nigeria during the President Tinubu’s administration, due to bad policies, insecurity and the instability of our Naira that has been nosediving.
He however mentioned that, the protest is going to be spearheaded by the youths. Therefore he plead with the youths to ensure it remains peaceful. And to the youths the politicians may try to use to disrupt the protest in any form; including trying to create violence so as to discredit the good idea of the organizers. he calls on such youths to have a rethink and not make themselves willing tool in the hand of politicians that have destroyed the entire system and still destroying the future of the same youths, while their children are abroad. Any politician that needs youths as thugs should be asked to call their children to Nigeria to do the dirty job.
He therefore added that, “I, Joseph Oluwadare Faduri aka Fadojoe, support this peaceful protest because protest is a way of expressing displeasure by the masses. And I call on members of our Rescue Movement For New Nigeria across the country to also be part of the peaceful protest. No doubt right now, things are going bad in the country and it just can’t continue this way,”.
copied from vanguard news.