Activist lawyer, Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, has alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has “ran out of ideas on what to do to rescue our collapsed economy.”
The Lagos-based lawyer said this while throwing his weight behind the planned protest across the country by pop musical star, Innocent Idibia.
Recall that the pop singer, popularly known as 2face, had recently announced that he would be leading a nationwide protest, against the “obnoxious policies” implemented by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
In a swift reaction, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said those planning to stage the nationwide protest against the Buhari-led administration were those in pains over the outcome of the 2015 presidential election.
But, in a press release he sent to DAILY POST, on Wednesday, the lawyer recalled how United Action for Democracy on January 16 2017, organised a rally against the sufferings and hardship that has characterized the Buhari administration.
Adegboruwa urged Nigerians to support 2face’s protest, stressing that the call was “ripe for this moment and he should be encouraged and supported.”
The release reads, “On January 16, 2017, the United Action for Democracy, declared the commencement of mass rallies all over the nation, as a way of mobilizing against the sufferings, pains, hunger and corruption that has characterized the General Buhari administration.
“Activists were joined by market women, artisans, beggars and commoners, to embark upon an open street protest from the NLC secretariat in Yaba, to Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota. At the end of that rally, UAD called on all Nigerians to take up their own protests in the churches, schools, mosques and all over the country.
“TUFACE IDIBIA has seized that initiative to declare a mass rally for February 6, 2017.
“I endorse the rally and mass protest, wholeheartedly and I urge all Nigerians to join in the protest, to make it peaceful and impactful.
“There is no doubt now again, that this government has ran out of ideas on what to do to rescue our collapsed economy, it has lost the battle against corruption, the very anchor of its administration, we still hear of Boko Haram devastating blows now and then, the whole nation is in gross darkness presently on account of absence of electricity, people are losing their jobs daily, students are forced to withdraw from school for lack of money to pay the fees and there is general poverty, all across our land.”
