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HUNGER PROTEST: WE’RE COMING BACK – TIB VOWS
The Take It Back Movement (TIB), one of the organizers of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest has vowed to return to the streets for another round of protest if President Bola Ahmed Tinubu fails to address their concerns.
The group said this on Saturday, as the hunger protest entered its 10th day.
In a video shared on X by the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Omoyele Sowore, the mobiliser of Take It Back Movement, Abiodun Sanusi, said that it had become clear to them that the President was not ready to yield to the demands of the protesters.
He said, “Today is August 10, 2024. Earlier on, we declared a 10 Days of Rage to end bad governance in Nigeria. However, it is now open to everyone that President Bola Tinubu is not ready to listen to the demands of Nigerians, neither does he want to accede to these demands.
“Today is the final day of the 10 Days of Rage. However, while we will be leaving the streets today, we are promising the Nigerian government and President Tinubu that we are coming back until he accedes to our demands.
“We will come back to the streets, and this time, we will be more than this. This time, we will be declaring a 10-million people march across the 36 states of Nigeria and the FCT.”
On August 1, Nigerians, under several groups, had stormed the streets to call the attention of the government to the hunger and economic hardship in the country. The protesters said that the economic policies of President Bola Tinubu’s administration have not been beneficial to the masses.
