President Bola Tinubu once again on Tuesday appealed to Nigerians to shelve planned protests against bad governance in the country scheduled for next month.
Information Minister Mohammed Idris conveyed Tinubu’s appeal to Nigerians while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Tuesday.
Idris said Tinubu urged the organisers of the protest to shelve their plan and rather await his response to their complaints.
“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,” he said.
The protest against economic hardship, which is gaining traction on social media, has been scheduled to hold across all states of the Federation as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, beginning from August 1.
Recall that the prices of food and basic commodities have skyrocketed in the last months.
Currently, many Nigerians are battling one of the country’s worst inflation and economic crisis sparked by government’s twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows.
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