Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, took to Twitter as he warned those planning a nationwide protest to desist from such actions as they can’t tell the end of it.
According to reports, Onanuga had accused Mr. Peter Obi’s supporters of masterminding the planned protest.
Despite acknowledging that the people has the right to protest in a democracy, he still warned protesters to be careful so that it will not be hijacked by hoodlums.
According to Sunday Vanguard Onanuga explained more on the post on his X (formerly Twitter) when he accused Peter Obi’s supporters. “My post is just to highlight that the people who are organizing this so-called nationwide protest are members of Labour party, they are Peter Obi supporters, so that’s my own take of it, it’s my own opinion so I am not going to say more than this.”
“That is their problem, I am not interested in what they want to do. I am just trying to say, look these are the people that are saying, we must do Kenya, so these are the people mobilizing, that is my own point.
“So, nobody is saying you must not protest, protest is legitimate in a democracy. The concern of people is that when you start a protest and it is not well managed, the end cannot be predicted just like people could not predict the end of EndSars.
“So, that’s just the concern of people. And again, when you are saying revolution now, revolution now, do they know the meaning of revolution now? Revolution means you are calling for a coup d’etat, that’s the meaning of it and that’s the point that I am making, nothing more than that. So anybody can protest, it’s within their rights to protest, nobody says you should not protest.”
Further asked if he has any evidence to prove that it’s supporters of Peter Obi that are planning the protest, he said, “Check their handles and see what they are posting, just follow what they have been posting. What I did was to do content analysis of what these people are posting as a journalist.”
