Otubi Audu Jos
The North Central All Progressive Congress (APC) Forum has warned all the groups planning to protest across the nation for whatever reason against the government to have a rethink and retrace their steps, saying that such decision will be inimical to progress of the country at this critical moment.
Speaking with newsmen in Jos the Plateau State capital on Monday to express their opposition to any form of protest, the forum’s Chairman, Alhaji Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, said President Bola Tinubu is trying his best to reposition the country and redirect it to the path of greatness, and so all he requires now is support rather than distraction in the name of any protest.
According to him, those calling for protest are not doing so for the love of the country, but for their own selfish reasons and cheap political points as many of them are being sponsored by forces who are enemies of the country and the government.
The chairman strongly send a note of warning also to the protesters not to contemplate staging it in the North Central region, saying that the region and the North by extension is currently going through security challenges which the president is trying tirelessly to tackle through the gains made by the security operatives.
And therefore, he said, any protest in the region can be highjacked by hoodlums to cause mayhem and threaten lives and properties of law abiding citizens.
He also mentioned the kidnappings, banditry and other things the region is going through, of which the region cannot afford to have another reactiveness added to it.
Besides, he said, protest in parts of the region and the North often takes ethno-religious dimension which also culminated into killings of one another between Christians and Muslims.
“Example of such protest which often turn violent and take an ethno-religious crisis is that of the #EndSars protest across the country which took such dimension in Jos, the Plateau State capital, and we have to do a lot to tame it.
“I, alongside other eminent persons in Jos, went around calming the people down and to stop the violence, and we endured that Christians are protected in Muslim areas, and vice versa, and thereafter handed them to the police to unite them with their families safely,” he said.
He called on all their members across the region to mobilize vigorously and campaign against any form of protest in the region, and also urged the governors, religious leaders, traditional rulers and other eminent personalities in the North Central region to call all their wards to order and advice them against participating in any form of protest due to the peculiar situation of the region.
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