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.Allages attempt to provoke the security forces to open mutiny, rebellion against constituted authority
By Valentine Amanze
Nigeria’s former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that there was nothing wrong for peaceful protest over bad government and hardhip in Nigeria.
Fani-Kayode also warned against “a premeditated attempt by a group of individuals on the payroll of subversive elements” to destabilise the country and incite people to violence and carnage.
Fani-Kayode, who did not mention the names of the group of individuals on the payroll of subversive elements, was expressing his opinion on the upcoming national protest against bad government, via his X handle, @realFFK, on Friday, July 26, 2024.
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In his reaction titled,
“Nationwide hardship protest: A timely warning ,” Fani-Kayode also alleged that the planned protest was an attempt to provoke the security forces to open mutiny and rebellion against the constituted authority and thereby truncuate the nation’s democracy.
“Those that are behind it are attempting to take advantage of the undoubtedly enormous economic challenges in the land to create panic, fear, chaos and mass unrest with a view to provoking anarchy, mayhem and armed insurrection.
“This is unacceptable and no responsible government will sit back and allow it to happen.
“I urge those that are behind this surreptitious, subterranean and sinister subterfuge to have a rethink and not spark off a reaction from the security forces that they will later regret. We do not want or need a nationwide #endsars-like round of protests and neither can we afford the attendant violence, strife, division, damage to property and bloodshed that comes with it,” Fani-Kayode said.
On the way forward, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain called on the organizers to put off the protest, exercise patience, enter dialogue with the Federal Government, stressing, “Anything outside of that will be dangerous and counter-productive.”
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