Amidst apprehension of a nationwide protest against the Bola Tinubu-led administration slated for August 1, 2024, a former chieftain of the governing All Progressives Congress, Ray Morphy, has urged Nigerians to be cautious and not join the fray.
Checks revealed that a northern group, the Northern Initiative for Growth, had formally notified the office of the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, on the nationwide protest which it noted was to express disaffection over the harsh economic policies of the present administration and demand for reforms.
But the APC chieftain dismissed the planned protest as an ethnic agenda under the guise of seeking economic reforms.
He told newsmen that the planned protest was not in the interest of ordinary Nigerians but for ethnic, regional, and religious reasons. He appealed to Nigerian youths to shun it.
He said: “There should be nothing to protest against. Let’s not confuse ethnicity, and regionalism with governance, indeed there is nothing to protest against.
“Those who did not protest under former President Muhammadu Buhari have no right to protest under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Those whose voices disappeared when Buhari was in power should not find their voice when Tinubu is in power. There is nothing to about what has done that Buhari did not do ten times of. Nothing. Many people did not find their voices when Buhari was in power, they were silent, therefore they have lost the right to instigate any protest now that Tinubu is in power.
“Those that are behind this protest are looking for a regime change, not in the interest of ordinary Nigerians but for regional, ethnic, and religious interests, and while I urge those who are intelligent and sensible not to join any protest. Thank you.”