In an interview with Channels TV this morning,
Lauretta Onochie who is the Personal Assistant to President Buhari on Social
Media, said the nationwide protest happening today has been hijacked by some
members of the opposition party.
According to her, Governor Fayose and Deji
Adeyanju of the PDP have declared their support for the protest. She says
having such persons championing the protest makes it lose its credibility since
they are of the party that massively wrecked the country during the last administration..
"It has been hijacked,
Governor Fayose is part of it. He said so. Deji Adeyanju who speaks for PDP is
part of it. The opposition has a right to protest but you cannot inflict injury
on somebody and then still protest"she said
Onochie added that contrary to popular belief,
singer 2face Idibia who was part of those championing today's protest, was not
bullied to cancel his support for the protest.
"I don't think he has
been bullied. He has a right to protest. Telling anyone not to protest will be
like the way many of us raise children in our nation. You beat a child and deny
the child the right to cry. A protest is a cry for help. If they want to go on
with the protest, they can go on but what I frown at seriously is the notion
that those who raped our nation massively are the ones pulling the strings
behind the scene. They started with OccupyCentralBank which failed woefully.
Nigerians shunned it. That was were they were supposed to pick up"she said
She said she called for a
national debate with 2face Idibia because she wanted him to come and speak
clearly on the policies of the present administration he is against. She says
she doesn't want few people to just write something for him to put online which
he doesn't understand
"When I read in the
news that 2face is to lead other starts to protest president Buhari's policies,
I looked at the body language and the headline and I thought that there is
something not quite right here. Protest policies? What policies because you
can't protest something you are not aware of. So I wanted to be sure that 2face
and the people he was leading into the protest, understood what the policies
were. So I said to him on social media that protests are acceptable but I want
to know, what policies that you are not happy about. Come and tell us on
national television. We want to hear him say it. I don't want a few people to
just write something for him or for anybody and they put it on the pages of
newspapers. Anybody can do that"she said
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