Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has faulted a planned #EndBadGovernance protest against the President Bola Tinubu administration alleging that the organisers of the rally have sinister motives. Fayose, who was a guest on a Television programme on Monday, claimed the planned August hardship protest has political dimensions.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
He said Tinubu’s predecessor Muhammadu Buhari was in power for eight years and there was no hunger protest despite the hardship in the country at the time.
Buhari, a former military head of state from Katsina State in North-West Nigeria was Nigeria’s democratically elected President from May 2015 to May 2023. He handed over power to Tinubu, former Lagos governor from the South-West geopolitical zone.
Fayose said, “Hunger didn’t start one day. This hunger started a long time ago. That was why they had a rally at a time and said: ‘Jonathan must go’. (President Goodluck) Jonathan left. That hunger did not stop. Buhari came. I spoke to power. Buhari spent eight years, nobody said anything. I didn’t remember any rally.
“There is no government that is 100%,” he said, adding that the economic issues confronting Nigeria were from the past administrations.
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“Nigeria is a very difficult country to govern. We all know that. If a man is to spend four years, give him a mid-term.
“The little they cannot be sufficient right now for anybody to say we must bring down the government. Because there must be a motive,” the ex-governor stated.
The Buhari administration witnessed some major protests including the #EndSARS protest against police brutality, demonstrations by university lecturers, and pro-Labour rallies, amongst others.