Atiku Abubakar, former Vice-President has alleged that supporters of Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress have been caught up in the hunger, anger, and hopelessness
in the current administrative of President Bola Tinubu.
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic party in the 2023 general election, Abubakar Atiku said this on his verified Facebook page, Tuesday.
He berated the Federal Government and its agencies for planning to abort the planned protest against hunger across the Country, begining August 1, 2023.
He stated that the rights of citizens to protest are ENSHRINED in the Nigerian Constitution and AFFIRMED by our courts. Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution (as altered) unequivocally guarantees the right to peaceful assembly and association.
According to him, ”
Chasing shadows and contriving purported persons behind the planned protests is an exercise in futility when it is obvious that Nigerians, including supporters of Tinubu and the ruling APC, are caught up in the hunger, anger, and hopelessness brought about by the incompetence and cluelessness of this government”.
“It is deeply ironic that those who now seek to stifle these rights were themselves leading protests in 2012. A responsible government must ensure a SAFE and SECURE environment for citizens to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed rights to PEACEFUL PROTEST. Any attempt to suppress these rights is not only unconstitutional but a direct affront to our democracy”, he said.
He lamented that those who now seek to stifle these rights were themselves leading protests in 2012 when protest against subsidy removal by Dr Goodluck Jonathan government.
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