From News Editor
President Bola Tinubum reacted to the planned nationwide protests by Nigerian youths with an appeal to the organisers to shelve their plans, assuring them that he has listened to their concerns and working diligently to address them.
The protest, billed to hold across the country from August 1 to 10, is said to be a way of registering the impact of food scarcity and the inability to afford common needs by the citizenry.
The President asked the youths to exercise patience as he’s already addressing the issues raised and assured them that government will promptly react to all their grievances.
Briefing newsmen after a routine meeting with the President at the State House, Abuja, Information and National Orientation Minister, Mohammed Idris, said “Mr President has asked me to again inform Nigerians that he listens to them especially the young people that are trying to protest.
Mr President listens to them he takes what they say seriously and he is working assiduously to ensure that this country is good not just for today but also for the future.
“In the issue of the planned protest, Mr President does not see any need for that he asked them to shelve that plan and he has asked them to await government’s response to all their pleas, he has listened to them like I said”.
The Minister further disclosed that intervention measures had been taken by the Bola Tinubu’s administration including the new minimum wage of N70, 000 already passed by the National Assembly, trucks of rice already dispatched to all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory as well as the Student Loans Fund launched recently by the President. {Arise}