Organisers of proposed August 1 protest are opportunists with political motives – Reno Omokri

Organisers of proposed August 1 protest are opportunists with political motives – Reno Omokri

A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has described the organisers of the planned August 1 protest as opportunists.

He added that their demands are political and that they are seeking to ride in the anger of some Nigerians to achieve their political ambitions.

Omokri urged the organisers to either start or join a political party and then use it to achieve their political agenda instead of claiming that they are protesting against hunger and hardship.

He made this known via a post on his X handle on Friday, July 26.

Omokri wrote: “I have organised protests in Nigeria and abroad and can tell you that this current planned protest is not against economic hardship, as the organisers tell you.

“Look at their demands. More than half of their demands are political. They have nothing to do with the economy.

“These people are opportunists. They are seeking to ride in the anger of some Nigerians to achieve their political ambitions.

“They should either start or join a political party and then use it to achieve their political agenda instead of claiming that they are protesting against hunger and hardship and then asking for the 1999 Constitution to be scrapped and the release of Nnamdi Kanu. What have those things got to do with hunger and hardship? ”

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