President Bola Tinubu’s tweets on protests before he became president in 2023 have been unearthed by Nigerians.
In 2013, under the administration of former president, Goodluck Jonathan; President Tinubu made some tweets on his X (formerly Twitter) handle calling on the police to stay away and allow Nigerians carry out their rights to peaceful assembly and protests.
Recall that President Tinubu along with Professor Wole Soyinka, among other All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains led an Occupy Nigeria protest in 2012 against ex-president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration policy to remove fuel subsidy.
Like many other Nigerians on X, Special Assistant on Media to Atiku Abubakar, Abdul Rasheeth, shared President Tinubu’s call for democratic revolution.
In the November 28 and December 1 2013 tweets, President Tinubu said revolution would unleash massive development for the country.
He also urged police to respect protesters. Tinubu warned the police that the future of their children were been fought for by the protesters.
On 28 November 2013, President Tinubu wrote, “Police. Do not attack protesters. Your children are involved. Your lives are involved. Your children’s future lie here.
On 1 December 2013, Tinubu wrote, “Nigeria needs a democratic revolution that will unleash infrastructural development and massive industrialization. Nigeria is a blessed.”
As of the time of filing this report, Tinubu’s media team are yet to dissociate Nigeria’s leader from the tweets.
Meanwhile, the North Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has warned against any protest.
The forum said hoodlums may hijack any peaceful protest in the country.
During a press briefing in Jos, Plateau State, the forum’s Chairman, Saleh Mandung Zazzaga, said, “Any protest in the region can be highjacked by hoodlums to cause mayhem and threaten the lives and properties of law-abiding citizens.
“The issue of kidnappings, banditry and other criminal activities the region has been going through over the years is already overwhelming on the region, and it cannot afford to have another restiveness added to it.
“Besides, protests in parts of the region and the North often take an ethno-religious dimension, which also culminated in killings of one another between Christians and Muslims.”
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