BREAKING: Hunger Protests to Resume on October 1, Video, Details Emerge
- The nationwide hunger protests have been scheduled for resumption on Tuesday, October 1
- Omoyele Sowore, the AAC presidential candidate in the 2023 election and one of the organizers of the protests, disclosed the plan in a televised interview
- According to Sowore, the protests will resume should the government fail to meet the protesters' demands
Omoyele Sowore, the Action Alliance Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election and one of the organizers of the nationwide hunger protests, has disclosed that the demonstration will continue from October 1.
Sowore made this known in an interview on News Central TV, adding that there have been ongoing meetings between him and other organizers of the protest, who have been having meetings and discussions about the demonstrations.
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Sowore maintained that should the government fail to heed their demands before October 1, they would have to take to the streets against and continue the protests.
“This protest will resume at the beginning of October and might even start earlier depending on situational variables.”
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Protest is a constitutional right - PDP chieftain
In an exclusive interview with Legit.ng, Rilwan Olanrewaju, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), maintained that the protest was constitutionally justified, adding that Nigerians have faced several problems since the beginning of President Bola Tinubu's administration. He said:
"I will rate the protest very high because it showed that a lot of things are not right. Since this government was inaugurated, there has been one problem after another, one terrible policy after another, and it's the right of the citizens to peacefully assemble to show discomfort with policies affecting them, as stated in the constitution (section 40)."
What are the demands of hunger protesters?
The protest organizers are demanding the reversal of the fuel subsidies, an increase in the new minimum wage to N250,000, the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the suspension of the 1999 constitution and a new one.
Despite President Bola Tinubu's televised appeal to end the protests, the organizers vowed to continue, saying his speech was not convincing.
The protest has sustained momentum in states like Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, and Bauchi, and organizers threatened to lock down the entire country today.
Some of the protesters in the northern region raised Russian flags during the demonstration, which raised security concerns from many Nigerians who saw it as a threat to the country's sovereignty.
See the video of the interview here:
Hunger protests: Obasanjo sends message to Tinubu
Legit.ng earlier reported that Olusegun Obasanjo, the former president of Nigeria, has called on President Bola Tinubu to heed the demands of protesting youths.
The former president made the call when six members of the national assembly paid a courtesy visit to his residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
Obasanjo then urged President Tinubu to listen to the youths' demands, adding that their demands were legitimate.
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