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APC Warns Nigerians To Halt Planned Nationwide Protest

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APC Warns Nigerians To Halt Planned Nationwide Protest

A severe warning has been issued by the North Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum regarding planned statewide protests that are purportedly directed towards the administration of President Bola Tinubu.

The forum’s chairman, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, asked organisers to reevaluate their plans and contended that such protests could impede national growth during a news conference in Jos, Plateau State.

Zazzaga asserted that rather than being motivated by sincere concerns for the advancement of the country, the protesters’ goals appear to be self-serving. He underlined that these protests might be needless diversion from the important work President Tinubu’s administration is doing to lead the nation towards prosperity and peace.

In addition, Zazzaga urged prospective demonstrators to take into account the already precarious security conditions in the North Central region and other regions of the North. He emphasised that any kind of disturbance might make matters worse and hinder the government’s attempts to deal with these problems.

The APC chairman promoted peaceful discourse as a more successful strategy than disruptive protests, and he urged unity and support for the government’s goals. He issued a warning that holding protests in the tumultuous North Central region could put security at further risk.

He said; “Therefore, any protest in the region can be highjacked by hoodlums to cause mayhem and threaten the lives and properties of law-abiding citizens.

“The issue of kidnappings, banditry and other criminal activities the region has been going through over the years is already overwhelming on the region, and it cannot afford to have another restiveness added to it.

“Besides, protests in parts of the region and the North often take an ethno-religious dimension, which also culminated in killings of one another between Christians and Muslims.

“An example of such a protest which often turns violent and takes 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 to stop the violence, and we ensured that Christians were protected in Muslim areas, and vice versa, and thereafter handed those protected from harm over to the police to unite them with their families safely.

“So, I call on all our members across the region to mobilise vigorously and campaign against any form of protest in the region, and I also urge the governors, religious leaders, traditional rulers and other eminent personalities and opinion leaders in the North Central region to call all their wards to order and advise them against participating in any form of protest due to the peculiar situation of our region.”

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