{"id":1885,"date":"2024-07-21T07:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:48:59","slug":"former-minister-of-youth-and-sports-solomon-dalung-has-declared-that-the-nationwide-protests-against-president-bola-ahmed-tinubus-administration-are-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/07\/21\/former-minister-of-youth-and-sports-solomon-dalung-has-declared-that-the-nationwide-protests-against-president-bola-ahmed-tinubus-administration-are-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has declared that the nationwide protests against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s administration are justified."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung has said that President Bola Tinubu and his \u2018locust cabal\u2019 love only the wealth of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Dalung also berated Bayo Onanuga, a presidential spokesperson, for claiming that the proposed nationwide protest against bad governance is sponsored by Peter Obi and\u00a0 meant to destabilize the country.<\/p>\n<p>The former Minister in a post on his X handle on Saturday said that Onanuga\u2019s statement was not only uncharitable but wicked.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cthe generation of Nigerians demanding for good governance, accountability and justice are more entitled to Nigeria than the group of scavengers occupying power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dalung insisted that the proposed protest is sacrosanct, saying it is to demand accountability from those who are destroying Nigeria\u2019s common heritage.<\/p>\n<p>His words: \u201cMake no mistake about it, we love our country but @officialABAT and his locust cabal love only the wealth of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protests are to demand for accountability from those who are destroying our common heritage. Nigerians have nowhere to go but @officialABAT has France, while others have Europe, Canada and USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore @aonanuga1956 calling out Nigerians as those planning to destabilize Nigeria is not only uncharitable but wicked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generation of Nigerians demanding for good governance, accountability and justice are more entitled to Nigeria than the group of scavengers occupying power. Take it to the bank, the protests are sacrosanct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeploying antics of divide and rule will not only fail but antiquated. The only antidote to the protests is for @officialABAT and his cult of plunderers to surrender to the demands of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fear of the protests degenerating into anarchy is evil imaginations of your mind calculated at abating holding the government responsible. All we are demanding is good governance, which is not too much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung has said that President Bola Tinubu and his \u2018locust cabal\u2019 love only the wealth of Nigeria. Dalung also berated Bayo Onanuga, a presidential spokesperson,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}