…Alleges attack by hoodlums

Shina Abubakar, Osogbo

Following the current economic hardship in the country, The RevolutionNow movement has continued with the daily protest against bad governance.

The group of protesters led by National Students, Take It Back Movement, students wing, Oguntola Sunday, also alleged that some hoodlums took advantage of the fact that security operatives did not escort them to launch an attack on them.

Adorning their identical orange cap, the group after a little argument with the police that they did not write to seek their protection, moved from the point of convergence at Freedom Park and walked through Old Garage, MDS to the popular Olaiya flyover singing different solidarity songs.

Addressing newsmen after the street protest, Sunday said the group having undertaker that it does not need police permission to embark on protest would continue to throng the streets until President Bola Tinubu listened to their agitation about the economy.

He described the Tinubu-led administration as an “autocratic and failed” government that the people must be forced to understand its pains.

“Our aim is to stop hunger, starvation, and the hardship inflicted on the masses by the APC-led govt led by incapacitated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He has shown us that he is a failed leader and over the months he’ll be agitating for a better Nigeria. All we want is a country that works for everybody, not just for the few elites. That is why we began our protest yesterday and we are going to be protesting until the adamant and autocratic leadership of Bola Ahmed Tinubu is ready to listen to us.

“Surprisingly today, the Nigerian Police Force came in their numbers and mobilized that we cannot hold a protest, they even had to hijack the vehicle that we rented to be our sound including our speakers, and the DJ to work for us today and they hijacked the vehicle saying they cannot work for us that because we did not inform them about the protest before.

“We made it categorically clear to them that we do not need the permission of the Nigerian Police Force to hold a peaceful protest and assembly so we told them categorically that if you are hijacking our vehicle saying that we cannot hold a protest that you cannot hijack our vehicle,” he said.

He also alleged that a vehicle deliberately drove into their midst to attack the protesters but there were no casualties and insisted that the protest would continue daily until there was a response from the President.