Why we won’t participate in hardship protest — Lagos Arewa

The Arewa Community in Lagos State has said that it will not participate in the planned 10-day nationwide protest slated to start August 1, drumming up support for President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Speaking on the Arewa community’s stand on the nationwide protest on Wednesday, the leader of the Arewa Community and Traders, Lagos State, Shehu Usman, said the planned protest is the handiwork of some politicians and their sponsors who, “under the guise of protesting against what they claim as hardship in Nigeria, have ganged up to bring down the democratically elected government of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”

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Stating that though it is the constitutional right of citizens to protest peacefully, he said: “The Arewa Community and Traders in Lagos State are totally against the national protests and we are not going to be part of any plan to cause trouble in Lagos State.

“We want to implore all our members not to take part in any protest being organised by faceless people. We don’t believe in the protests because we don’t think we need any national protests against the administration of President Bola Tinubu at the moment, especially when there are a lot of transformation and people-oriented policies being carried out by the President Bola Tinubu-led government.

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“We are not in support of the protest because we believe some fifth columnists, politicians, and those who want to set Nigeria, particularly Lagos, on fire are behind the protests for selfish interests.”