Tinubu, Matawalle: N200m bribe offer exposed as group refuses to stage protest in Abuja

• The Northern Socio-Political Rights Network (NSPRN) claimed it turned down a N200 cardinal bribe to signifier protests against President Tinubu and defence curate (state) Matawalle
• The radical said the connection was portion of a crippled to make fake outrage and weaken Tinubu’s grip connected the northwest up of 2027
• NSPRN urged information agencies to analyse the alleged backing of specified politically motivated campaigns

Kaduna - An advocacy group, the Northern Socio-Political Rights Network (NSPRN), has revealed that it rejected an connection of N200 cardinal from proxies linked to the Zamfara authorities authorities to organise a protestation against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the curate of authorities for defence, Bello Matawalle.

In a connection issued connected Saturday, May 10, Mohammed Farouk Lawal, president of the NSPR Network, said that emissaries acting connected behalf of the Zamfara authorities authorities approached the radical earlier this week with an connection to mobilise a large-scale protestation successful Abuja.

President Bola Tinubu and Minister Bello Matawalle are the targets of what NSPRN calls a 'state-sponsored smear campaign', a radical alleged. Photo credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP
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The protest, they were told, would people President Tinubu and Matawalle, accusing the latter’s medication of shielding the Minister from corruption investigations.

Alleged crushed down planned protestation - Lawal

Lawal described the bribe connection arsenic portion of a broader strategy to undermine the national government’s power successful the northwest. He said the crippled aimed to make the illusion that determination was wide discontent successful the portion with the president's enactment and his handling of cardinal ministers.

Lawal said the radical rejected the bribe outright, stating:

"We were approached by individuals claiming to correspond high-ranking officials successful Zamfara. They offered america N200 cardinal to organise a protest, with instructions to impeach President Tinubu’s medication of protecting Matawalle from investigations. We rejected the connection completely.”The group’s president further alleged that the aforesaid web had antecedently funded akin protests done different groups and was actively seeking caller voices to amplify its narrative. "They are hopeless for credibility," Lawal said. "When they realised that our radical has a beardown grassroots pursuing successful the North, they thought buying america implicit would assistance legitimise their campaign. But we are not for sale."

Plans for a pre-planned protest

The NSPR Network disclosed that the presumption of the connection included speechmaking pre-written scripts astatine property conferences, organising a protestation astatine the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) headquarters, and producing viral videos calling for Matawalle’s arrest.

According to Lawal, the orchestrated protests were intended to make an content of wide absorption to the medication and to intensify nationalist dissatisfaction with the government.

The radical besides stated that caller protests against Matawalle were not grassroots-driven, but alternatively portion of a state-sponsored effort to discredit cardinal figures loyal to President Tinubu.

“This is an interior warfare against Tinubu’s appointees,” Lawal claimed. “We person accusation suggesting these attacks are meant to origin part up of the 2027 elections. Our radical volition not enactment successful specified schemes.”

The NSPR Network expressed its enactment for Matawalle, praising his efforts successful combating banditry and coercion successful bluish Nigeria. Lawal defended the curate arsenic 1 of the fewer erstwhile governors who continued to enactment subject operations successful the region.

“While others are engaged backing protests, Minister Matawalle is helping unafraid our region. Nigerians indispensable spot done this charade,” helium said.

President Bola Tinubu and Minister Bello Matawalle are the targets of what NSPRN calls a 'state-sponsored smear campaign', a radical alleged. Photo credit: KOLA SULAIMON/AFP
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Group calls for investigation

The radical called connected information agencies to analyse the root of funds being utilized to concern these governmental protests, informing that if unchecked, specified actions could undermine nationalist stability.

"We impulse the applicable authorities to way the fiscal sources down these campaigns, arsenic they airs a important menace to the country’s governmental and societal cohesion," Lawal concluded.

PDP politician accused of sponsoring protestation against Matawalle

In a related development, the Zamfara State Government was accused of sponsoring a caller protest against the curate of authorities for defence, Matawalle.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Integrity Network alleged that the protestation was portion of a broader program to sabotage President Tinubu’s administration.

The president of the APC Integrity Network, Bamidele Ibrahim Ayoola, described the protestation staged by the alleged APC Young Leaders Alliance arsenic a “cash-for-mob stunt”.

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