Presidential aide Bayo Onanuga has alleged that supporters of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, are planning to stage nationwide protests against the Tinubu administration.
Onanuga claims that the protesters are the same individuals who were involved in the destructive ENDSARS protest in October 2020 and are now seeking to destabilise the country.
“The protest planners are the same people who were instigated by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to launch the destructive ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020,” Onanuga said.
“They are the people spreading the hashtags ‘EndBadGovernance’, ‘Tinubu Must Go,’ and ‘Revolution2024’. They are not democrats but anarchists.”
Onanuga has accused the protesters of being anarchists who are attempting to call out citizens via propaganda because their preferred candidate, Peter Obi, failed to win the presidency in the 2023 election.
“They are attempting to call out our people via propaganda because their Messiah, Peter Obi, failed to win the Presidency in the 2023 election,” he said.
“As bad losers, they don’t have the patience to wait for another election in 2027; they would rather destabilise Nigeria by staging a civilian coup against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
The presidential aide has been tracking the activities of one of the protest planners, who claims to have an internet radio station and has been whipping up support for the protest on social media.
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“In the past 24 hours, this faceless X user has been whipping up the gullible to join the protest being planned and also posting the activities of his Messiah, Peter Obi,” Onanuga said.
“He retweets Peter Obi often. In one of the posts, a video shows a teenager, who is said to be in the North, printing T-shirts emblazoned with “EndBadGovernance in Nigeria 2024′.”
Onanuga has urged citizens to consider the government’s efforts to address the economic challenges facing the country before deciding whether to join the protests.
“The Tinubu government has not been found wanting in this regard,” he said.
“The minimum wage has been increased by more than 100 percent. Loans are being disbursed to students in tertiary schools. A credit corporation has been launched to promote consumption credit.”
