Northern Coordinators of the #Endbadgovernance Protest across the 19 northern states have pulled out on grounds that the organizers have not done enough to provide security for protesters.
According to the Coordinators, the decision to pull out was reached after failure on the side of national organizers to resolve the knotty issues around how to safeguard protesters and wade off hoodlums from hijacking the process again.
In a joint statement signed by the Chairman and the Secretary of the Northern Coordinators of #Endbadgivernance Protest, Abdullahi Daura and Mohammed Musa Biu, respectively, they explained that members were apprehensive about a repeat of the violence that erupted in Kano, Kaduna and other parts of the north.
According to the statement, “We have asked questions and written several requests for security cover at the convergence points in the north where people will join the protest action. But we are yet to get a clear answer and measures taken to avoid violence and looting of property.
“Against this background, we are urging all our members in all the nineteen states to obey the directives from the coordinators and pull until we get clearance from security agencies,” they stated.
While assuring Nigerians about their resolve to put pressure on the federal government to reverse all the unfriendly policies that have caused untold hardship, it explained that lives and property of innocent citizens matter to them more than anything.
Northern coordinators pull out of October 1 Endbadgovernance protest