All Progressives Congress (APC) North Central Forum (NCF) has warned groups planning protests across Nigeria against the government to retrace their steps.
It said such actions would be inimical to the country’s progress at this critical moment.
The forum chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, stated this yesterday in a chat with newsmen in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
He expressed their opposition to any form of protest adding that President Bola Tinubu is trying his best to reposition the country and redirect it to the path of greatness. He added that all he requires is support rather than distraction in the name of any protest.
According to him, those calling for protest are not doing so for the love of the country, but for their own selfish reasons and cheap political points as many of them are being sponsored by forces who are the enemies of the country and the government.
The chairman warned the protesters not to contemplate staging such in the North Central region, saying that the region and the North, by extension, are currently experiencing security challenges that the president is trying tirelessly to tackle through the gains made by the security operatives.
Therefore, he said, any protest in the region can be hijacked by hoodlums to cause mayhem and threaten the lives and properties of law-abiding citizens.
He also mentioned the kidnappings, banditry and other things the region is going through, of which they cannot afford to have another reactiveness added to it.
Besides, he said, protests in parts of the region and the North often take an ethno-religious dimension, which also culminates in killings of one another between Christians and Muslims.
“An example of such 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,” he said.
