The North-Central wing of the ruling All-Progressives Congress (APC) has warned people planning massive anti-government protests to stay away from the region. Addressing newsmen on the issue, the chairman of the forum, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, said such move is inimical to the progress of the country at a critical time as this.
Zazzaga argued that the president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is doing his best to reposition the country and called protests a “distraction” from the efforts of the president. He claims those calling for protests are not doing so out of love for the country but for selfish reasons, to score cheap political points and are allegedly sponsored by opposition elements.
The chairman also said staging a protest in the north-central is counter productive as security agents are working to calm the insecurity situation in the region. He claims hoodlums and other bad faith actors can easily infiltrate such protests and wreak havoc on the nation.
“An example of such protests which often turn violent and take an ethno-religious crisis is that of the #EndSars protest across the country which took such a dimension in Jos, the Plateau State capital, and we have to do a lot to tame it.
“I, alongside other eminent persons in Jos, went around calming the people down and to stop the violence, and we endured that Christians are protected in Muslim areas, and vice versa, and thereafter handed them to the police to unite them with their families safely,” he said.
Zazzaga, therefore, called on parents, guardians and other stakeholders to wade in and dissuade their wards from participating in such protests.
