President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerians to shelve planned protests against bad governance in the country, slated for next month.
The appeal was made known by Information Minister Mohammed
Idris, who briefed State House correspondents after a meeting with the
President on Tuesday.
Idris said Tinubu urged the organisers of the protest to
shelve the plan and await the President’s 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,” the minister 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, starting from
August 1.
The prices of food and basic commodities have gone through
the roof in the last months.
Many Nigerians currently are battling one of the country’s
worst inflation and economic crisis sparked by the government’s twin policies
of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows.
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