Sowore, Adegboruwa Issue Counter Directives Over Nationwide Protest: “Withdraw”, Orders Adegboruwa, “Continue”, Sowore

By Ayodele Oni

Convener of revolution now, Omoyele Sowore and Rights Activists, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa seem to have disagreed over the ongoing nationwide protest which entered the second day on Friday.

Sowore in his X account far away from the United States of America stated “Thank you all for staying the course in the last 24 hours since the commencement of the #endbadgovernaceinnigeria REVOLT.

“Note: the daily barricades, marches, rallies and people’s congresses should be intensified.

“We want to notify the public that in addition to street marches, those at home should engage in pot & pan protests against hunger, poverty and starvation.”

Adegboruwa in his own reaction stated that “I appeal to the protesters to withdraw themselves from their various protest grounds and to suspend the protests immediately and indefinitely, in order to give room for meaningful dialogue and engagement with the government.

“Given that the protests were said to have been hijacked by sponsored agents, it is necessary to avoid further losses and casualties.

“Notice of this protest was given many weeks ago, yet nothing was done to engage the organizers of the protests in order to address the issues raised in their charter of demands.

“It is the same way that the government ignores several strike notices issued by the Labour unions until they eventually snowball into strike actions. This should not be so.

“I therefore call upon President Bola Tinubu to directly address the nation and then engage the protesters, through their representatives.

“Thereafter, the government should set up a Committee comprising men and women of integrity to meet with the protesters to address the issues that they have raised.

“I commend the people of Nigeria who trooped out in their large numbers to join the protests and those who stayed at home in solidarity by way of peaceful civil disobedience.

“No leader should ever take the people for granted. In the peculiar circumstance of the hunger and hardship being experienced by our people across the land, the protests were more than justified.”