Roasting corn and kuli-kuli as hope renewed. Where drones are changing warfare. Where women are leading regional politics driving change. In world where we are talking about how AI is changing industry. These people despise Nigerians. I am just thinking of the wife of the German Chancellor saying they have provided grants for women to start selling schnitzel and currywurst as part of the Chancellor's agenda of renewed hope.
Democracy isn’t just about the ballot box, it’s also about the right to speak up and be heard. To suggest that protest isn’t democratic or is simply a breakdown of public order is concerning because it ignores the rights of Nigerians that governance must protect.
PRESS STATEMENT
Our attention has been drawn to a message currently circulating on social media falsely claiming that we are planning a protest over the rising insecurity in the country.
We do not support any action that could lead to the breakdown of public order or the destruction of lives and property. As responsible leaders, we remain committed to peaceful and constructive approaches in addressing national challenges.
As committed democrats, we firmly believe that the ballot box remains the most legitimate and effective way to express grievances and seek change. Our party, the NDC, is confident of securing a resounding victory in the upcoming elections through peaceful democratic means.
The general public is therefore advised to disregard the false message and ignore those peddling such disinformation.
Signed,
Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, PhD, FNSE
Former Governor, Kano State
NDC Vice Presidential Candidate
Protest ongoing on in Abeokuta, Ogunstate about the ins£curity going on in the country. it’s currently going on in Ibadan too !! Everybody is coming out now 🪧 ✊🏽
This is heartbreaking. At a time like this, the government is more preoccupied with pre-election activities rather than fulfilling its fundamental duty of protecting lives and property. God help us
Which is why I push back against the idea that our social values are warped simply because we are poor.
The deeper problem is that good character is not consistently rewarded or respected, and bad character is not reliably shunned or punished.
Any government that rehabilitates bandits and releases them back into society, is in bed with bandits.
There is no greater way to announce that you hate your people than to free the people that kills them.
The news of the abduction of innocent UTME candidates in Benue State is not just heartbreaking but a damning indictment of the failure of leadership and the collapse of security in our nation.
Young Nigerians striving for an education are being met with terror. In a country where the share of tertiary graduates is already painfully low (about 1%) which is far below peers like Indonesia (about 13%) and South Africa (around 10%). This is unacceptable. We cannot afford to lose even one more student to violence.
Those entrusted with protecting these young students appear increasingly preoccupied with the next election, projecting strength and power to rig elections, rather than deploying that same power and agencies to secure our roads, prevent these crimes, and rescue the abducted children who should not be in the hands of criminals but in examination halls.
This is no longer an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. It is a national crisis. And it demands urgent, decisive, and responsible action, not excuses, not silence, but leadership that matches the scale of the emergency this deserves.
A nation that abandons its youth abandons its future. This cannot continue.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Churches should sensitize people to get their PVC’s and vote o. Every Sunday we are praying for Nigeria to be better, if we don’t back it up w action absolutely nothing for us 👍🏽