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- The Lagos authorities authorities has warned against a planned nationwide protestation coinciding with the 2025 Democracy Day celebration
- Anti-government forces had announced a nationwide protestation scheduled for Thursday, June 12
- However, the politician of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, questioned the motive down the protest, suggesting that it was 'ill-timed'
Ikoyi, Lagos authorities - Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos authorities connected Sunday, June 8, has advised Lagosians to region themselves from immoderate planned protestation against the authorities of President Bola Tinubu.
Legit.ng had reported successful May that the #EndBadGovernance question announced its program to stage protests crossed Nigeria connected Thursday, June 12.
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June 12 is Democracy Day successful Nigeria, a nationalist national holiday, commemorating the 1993 statesmanlike predetermination that was annulled by the military. The predetermination was won by Moshood Abiola (of blessed memory), a fashionable entrepreneur.
On May 29, 2025, Hassan Soweto, 1 of the leaders of the EndBadGovernance movement, announced the imminent protestation astatine a property league successful Lagos state.
According to Soweto, the objection is aimed astatine expressing dissatisfaction with the Bola Tinubu medication implicit its economical reforms "which person triggered hardship".
Soweto posited that the removal of subsidy and unification of the naira person adversely affected the economy, pushing galore citizens into hardship.
But reacting aft helium met with President Tinubu alongside the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision-making assemblage of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Lagos, Sanwo-Olu advised Nigerian youths and different individuals readying to signifier protests implicit the purported hardship being experienced by Nigerians to retrace their steps.
He said:
“We are proceeding radical accidental connected June 12, they privation to protest. We privation to usage this accidental to code them. What would beryllium the basis? We are engaging them; we are talking to them. ‘To bash what?’ In 2 years, springiness this president capable much time. The system arsenic you tin spot has made a affirmative bend. And each we request to bash is to proceed to privation him good and spot those effects go reality. The outgo of goods, the outgo of living, information of lives and property.”Legit.ng recalls that successful August 2024, protests erupted successful aggregate cities crossed Nigeria arsenic frustrated citizens took to the streets, voicing their choler implicit alleged expanding hunger and “bad governance.”
The demonstrations, dubbed "10 days of rage", were portion of a larger question of unrest spreading crossed Africa successful places specified arsenic Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria.
The demonstrations spiralled retired of power successful parts of the country, including the bluish Yobe and Kano states wherever authorities declared a 24-hour curfew arsenic backstage and nationalist properties were looted successful chaotic scenes that besides saw galore vehicles burned.
The pursuing month, astatine slightest 10 radical who took portion successful the protests were charged with treason and different superior offences astatine the national precocious tribunal successful the capital, Abuja.
All of the accused pleaded not guilty.
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The protests turned convulsive successful immoderate places arsenic protesters clashed with information forces leaving astatine slightest 7 dead, according to police, though rights groups enactment the decease toll astatine 23.
In November 2024, it emerged that immoderate minors of bluish extraction who participated successful the EndBadGovernance protestation were arrested and incarcerated. Following nationalist outcry, President Tinubu ordered their release.
The statesmanlike directive was disclosed by Mohammed Idris, the curate of accusation and nationalist orientation, portion briefing State House correspondents aft gathering with the president.
Sanwo-Olu's video can beryllium watched successful afloat below:
Tinubu yet forgives Sanwo-Olu
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that President Tinubu declared that helium had forgiven Sanwo-Olu.
Tinubu said helium was nary longer aggravated with the Lagos authorities governor, declaring, “It’s each implicit now; each is forgiven.”
Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu were reportedly not connected bully presumption since the impeachment of Mudashiru Obasa arsenic Lagos assembly speaker.
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