{"id":1879,"date":"2024-07-20T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:43:13","slug":"obis-supporters-ipob-behind-planned-protest-onanuga-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/07\/20\/obis-supporters-ipob-behind-planned-protest-onanuga-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi\u2019s Supporters, IPOB Behind Planned Protest, Onanuga Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Bayo Onanuga, a presidential aide, has accused supporters of Peter Obi, Labour Party\u2019s candidate in the 2023 presidential election, of planning protests across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, who was\u00a0<\/span>emphatic that Obi\u2019s supporters were planning to stage nationwide protests, said that Obi would be held responsible for whatever crisis that emanated from the action.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe protest planners are also the same people who were instigated by IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to launch the destructive ENDSARS protest in Nigeria in October 2020,\u201d Onanuga wrote on his official X account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cENDSARS began as a genuine protest by youths against the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, notorious for its high-handedness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIPOB members planning to extricate the South-East region from Nigeria infiltrated the protest and hijacked it for their own agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLagos still bears the scar of the malicious destruction until today,\u201d Onanuga wrote.
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He said that two years after ENDSARS, IPOB and the gullible innocents joined the Labour Party in 2022 to support Obi, who he said was a sympathiser of their cause.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the people spreading the hashtags \u2018EndBadGovernance,\u2019 \u2018Tinubu Must Go,\u2019 and \u2018Revolution2024.\u2019 They are not democrats but anarchists.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are attempting to call out our people via propaganda because their Messiah, Peter Obi, failed to win the Presidency in the 2023 election.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs bad losers, they don\u2019t have the patience to wait for another election in 2027; they would rather destabilise Nigeria by staging a civilian coup against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, if they understood the meaning of their hashtags, they will realise they are clarion calls for treason; wanting to end an elected government is high treason, wanting revolution is a call for a coup d\u2019etat, which is also high treason.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have been on the trail of one of the protest planners, who is nameless but claims to have an internet radio station, PTM100.88 Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe anonymous person joined X in August 2022 and has 520 followers today, among whom are FS Yusuf, another rabid Obi supporter, and Prof. Pat Utomi, a Labour Party chief, and a guy on X who goes by the pseudonym Peter Obi\u2019s First Son.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPTM\u2019s profile image has someone holding the inscription \u2018Certificate Forger Not My President,\u2019 with a photo of Peter Obi as an inset. Only Obi\u2019s supporters will be talking about certificate forgery long after the Supreme Court dismissed the allegation,\u201d Onanuga wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said that in the past 24 hours, this\u00a0<\/span>X user had been whipping up the gullible to join the protest being planned and also posting the activities of Obi.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one of the posts, he said a video showed a teenager, who was said to be in the North, printing T-shirts emblazoned with \u201cEndBadGovernance in Nigeria 2024.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is also a retweeted post by Babatunde Gbadamosi, who he described as a failed and frustrated politician in Lagos. In it, he refers to his earlier post urging people \u201cto identify APC members, sponsors, supporters, enablers, thugs, promoters, and appointees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Onanuga said the police and DSS ought to have arrested the man for making a brazen threat to political opponents.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said there was also \u201cGeneral Oluchi,\u201d a woman by the screen name \u201cA Field Marshall of the Han Dynasty.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe has been sending out letters of mobilisation. She even pinned a \u2018Week 6\u2019 letter urging Nigerians to wake up and take control of their country, using the language of IPOB, Peter Obi, and his supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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See also<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Alleged BVN fraud: Investigation outcome\u2019ll determine fate of ex-agitators -PAP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAnother member of the malcontents is Brother Bernard, also known as Mikael C. Bernard. He is not based in Nigeria because he was once busted over Binance and fraudulent crypto businesses in Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBernard was the man who once wrote that the naira should go down to zero,\u201d said Onanuga.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a reaction to Oluchi, Bernard said the protesters should remove the increase in salaries for the armed forces as part of their demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf they want an increment in salary, let them launch their own protest. It is not our job to fight for enablers of evil,\u201d Bernard wrote on X, according to Onanuga.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, an X user reminded Bernard that according to Nigerian law, men of the armed forces don\u2019t protest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity agents should, by now, begin to interrogate these agents of destabilisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no country in the world where people are not going through some economic challenges and where the cost of living is not a major issue.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo country is immune from economic turbulence at the moment. Civilised and democratic people wait for another election to make leadership changes. They don\u2019t trigger mayhem in their countries by staging protests, the end of which nobody can predict,\u201d said Onanuga.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that Nigerian citizens must consider the government\u2019s attitude and concern about the cost of living crisis when deciding whether to join the protests.
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\u201cThe Tinubu government has not been found wanting in this regard. The minimum wage has been increased by more than 100 percent. Loans are being disbursed to students in tertiary schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA credit corporation has been launched to promote consumption credit. Palliatives, including the latest distribution of 740 trucks of rice to the 36 states and Abuja, are being rolled out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBusinesses, such as pharmaceuticals, are being assisted. The Federal and state governments are investing heavily in agriculture to produce more food,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, the economy is improving, inflation is slowing, the national debt has been reduced in dollar terms, and the FIRS has increased revenue generation to record levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInvestors are coming back to our country. Our stock market is the best in the world, with a 33 per cent return on investment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Tinubu has a four-year mandate to run his agenda. Those calling for protest should wait till 2027 to either re-elect him or elect their Messiah, Mr Peter Obi,\u201d said Onanuga<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Labour Party, in a statement by Obiora Ifoh, its National Publicity Secretary, has said that the party is known for being peaceful and has, on several occasions, asked its followers to follow peace at all times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attention of the leadership of the LP has been drawn to a tweet from one of the presidential aides, Mr Bayo Onanuga, linking it and its national leader Peter Obi, and very many notable figures in the LP, to the proposed protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe say that there is no truth in that.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabour Party is known for being a very peaceful party and it has, at several occasions, asked its followers to follow peace at all times, Obi was the person who stop Nigeria to protest after evil election in Nigeria in 2023 , why accusing innocent man<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not known as a lawless group, as was evident in the aftermath of the last general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is, therefore, wrong for anyone to link our supporters to the planned protest. Labour Party, Peter Obi and our supporters are not planning any protests,\u201d Ifoh said.(NAN)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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