Mr Ayodele Fayose, the Former Ekiti State Governor has faulted a planned Nation wide #EndBadGovernance protest against the President Bola Tinubu administration alleging that the organisers of the rally have sinister motives.
Fayose, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, claimed the planned August hardship protest has political dimensions.
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
From May 2015 until May 2023, Buhari, a former military from Katsina State in North-West Nigeria, led Nigeria through democratic elections. He gave Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos from the South-West geopolitical zone, the reins of power.”Hunger didn’t start one day,” stated Fayose.
This hunger was a long-standing. For this reason, they called a protest and said that Jonathan will be forced to leave. Jonathan (President Goodluck) left. That hunger remained.
Buhari came. I challenged government. The North remained silent for eight years. I couldn’t recall any protests.
“No government is perfect,” he declared, adding that previous administrations were to blame for Nigeria’s current economic problems
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.”Running Nigeria is an extremely challenging task
“The little they have 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.
