A trend of protesters waving foreign flags during the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest has continued.
Protesters holding Russian flags near the
Nyanya bridge, a suburb in Abuja, were seen on Monday.
The trend was first observed in Kano, northern Nigeria’s
commercial nerve centre, on the first day of the protest.
On Saturday, the protesters defied a 24-hour curfew and
marched through the city, urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene
in Nigeria.
Some of the youths disclosed that they were leaning
towards Russia because of a lack of trust in President Bola Tinubu’s motives.
“We are raising the Russian flag because we believe Tinubu
is playing his imperial masters’ scripts — the World Bank, the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), and the United States of America,” Auwalu Idi, a
protester.
On Sunday, more Russian flag carriers were also spotted in
Kano.
Another group of protesters arrived in Jos, the Plateau
capital, on the same day with Russian and Japanese flags, forcing protest
organisers to conclude the march early.
Salman Garba, the state police commissioner, had told
reporters that some of the youths were hiding under a programme organised by an
unnamed politician in Kano.
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