The Presidency has described
protest in London as an uncovered plan by “Nigerian looters”to disrupt the
ongoing official visit of President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN), sources in the presidency told State House correspondents on
Tuesday night that the alleged looters had rented motley crowd of professional
demonstrators to protest against President Buhari on his arrival to London.
According to the impeccable
sources in Aso Villa and Britain, extremely corrupt Nigerians who were
custodians of slush funds stolen from Nigeria, and hiding in UK have colluded
to form a league of protesters.
The sources noted that the
protesters’ singular aim was to distract and disorganise the scheduled state
visit of the President to England.
President Buhari is billed to
hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and other dignitaries.
“Barely 24 hours after President
Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to contest for another term in office
as President of Nigeria, the camps of alleged looters and corrupt elements
within and outside the country have been jolted.
“This has forced them to push
panic buttons including renting a motley crowd of professional demonstrators to
protest against the President on his arrival into the United Kingdom.
“Esteemed Nigerians home and
abroad, friends and business investors in Nigeria, should please see through
the veil of the motive behind the Abuja House, Kensington London demonstration.
“It was an orchestrated act of
desperation and a ploy to blackmail and hoodwink the President from
concentrating on his anti corruption campaign , which is fast gaining grounds
locally and internationally.
“This unpatriotic act is not
unconnected to the Federal government policies to name and shame corrupt
citizens and looters; to collate database of Nigerians with homes in UK who are
not paying the right taxes, and the hot drive to prosecute all financial defaulters
through bilateral and multilateral means,” the source told NAN.
A public affairs analyst who
preferred anonymity also said “the protest was bench-marked on an assemblage of
local grievances and national challenges which the government is already
tackling head on, such as the herdsmen versus agrarian farmers clashes, fuel
scarcity which no longer exists and trumped up charge of hunger in the land at
a time when prices of food items are beginning to drop and inflation on the
decrease.
“An insider vowed that they will
take their demonstrations to the venue of CHOGM holding later in the month in
Britain, which President Buhari is attending as a Commonwealth Head of State.”
When contacted, the Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu,
reacting to the London protest, said that the President would not be distracted
from his mission in the UK.
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