By Abubakar Yunusa
The Confederation of All Progressives Congress APC Support Groups (CASG) has said that the planned nationwide protest against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration over the state of the nation may lead to anarchy and should be discarded.
He also suggested the strengthening of the Mobile arm of the Nigerian Police and the withdrawal of the military to tackle banditry and other forms of insecurity in the country.
He said that he was pained on lingering issues on the Nigerian political space, threatening to undermine the co-values of the nation’s political development.
“I genuinely accept and sympathise with my fellow countrymen and women on these unfortunate scenarios, to wit: soaring prices of food items, services and goods across the country. As a democrat, I also accept the feelings of Nigerians, mostly, the down trodden, whose meagre economic demand power, has not been able to cope with the development.
“This is why the CASG, of which I as the Director–General, strongly stands against any ill-advised group of persons or individuals, to organize and stage a nationwide protest against the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, under any guise, because, it is a distraction that is loaded with landmines that should be avoided,” Kailani said.
He warned that no nation in the world has survived an uncoordinated nationwide protest, because it will plunge the nation into chaos, as can be seen in Kenya which struggling to survive one.
He said, “Nigeria cannot afford that experience at this critical moment. We have not forgotten the EndSars painful memory. Therefore, we should not indulge ourselves in an untimely protest that has the potential and attraction of being hijacked by hoodlums, political jobbers and losers.
“We have not forgotten the looting syndrome that normally charecterise protests in Nigeria. This is why the President, National Harmonised Association of Nigerian Traders, Bature Abdulazzez, categorically, warned its members to stay away from the planned protest.
“After all, President Tinubu has a listening ear. In the wake of these, he has dispatched 20 trucks of rice to each of the 36 states, including Abuja. We are appealing to the state governors and the Minister of the FCT, to ensure that the commodity is not diverted to political cronies and relatives, but reaches the down- trodden masses for which it is intended.”
He said that the confederation believes President Tinubu is working round the clock, to see that other palliatives and frameworks to ease the unexpected hardship by the citizenry ends shortly.
“Hence, it becomes imperative that the dynamics of corporate engagement should be engaged, to attain socio-economic uplift of the nation and its peoples, rather of embarking on a protest laded with land mines.”
Speaking on the suspended former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Ali Ndume, he said that the ranking lawmaker remains a member of the APC, the CASG and an ally of President Tinubu, but should have been more circumvent on his grievances due to the important position he occupied in the country.
“He (Ndume) said some things because he cannot see Mr President, that as an elder statesman, he should not have said publicly. If he cannot see the President today, he can see him another time. He should not have washed a dirty linen in public,” Kailani said.
