The Arewa Youth Ambassadors, a prominent group in northern Nigeria, have reaffirmed their commitment to proceed with their planned protest on August 1, 2024. This demonstration aims to express their dissatisfaction with President Bola Tinubu’s policies, which they describe as detrimental to the people.
The group has dismissed rumors that the protest had been called off, calling such information false and misleading. They urged Nigerians to disregard these rumors.
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In a statement signed by the National Coordinator, Yahaya M. Abdullahi, on Saturday in Abuja, the group made their position clear. “The narrative making the rounds that the Arewa Youth Ambassadors had shelved its planned protest aimed at expressing its dissatisfaction with President Tinubu’s anti-people policies is at best false and at worst misleading. Let’s be categorical, there is no going back on our words, as the protest is scheduled for 1st August, 2024,” the statement read.
Abdullahi emphasized that the protest is a necessary response to the worsening insecurity, food and fuel crises, unemployment, and high cost of living affecting both the region and the country. “We wish to make it clear that the protest becomes necessary considering the insecurity that spirals upward coupled with incessant food and fuel crises, unemployment, and high cost of living bedeviling our region in particular and the country in general,” he stated.
He further criticized the government, questioning its commitment to the welfare of Nigerians. “If the President Tinubu-led government is for Nigerians as a whole, why on earth the false pretenses? It’s so sad and pathetic that sufferings have become unspeakable and pervasive, while the power that is keeps on looking the other way,” he added.
The Arewa Youth Ambassadors reiterated that the protest would go ahead unless the government reverses its detrimental policies. “Arewa Youth Ambassadors state beyond any doubt that the protest will happen on the slated date unless the government reverses its policies that have given rise to gruesome hunger and multidimensional poverty in the land,” the statement concluded.
