Pro-Buhari protesters
The
Presidency on Wednesday, reacted to the protests that rocked Wuse
market in Abuja by popular musician, Charly Boy, describing it as
'ethnicised' and selfish.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi
Adesina, who addressed a pro-Buhari group from the Niger-Delta region
which staged a separate rally in Abuja on Wednesday, to counter the
#ResumeOrResign protesters, reacted to the protests that rocked Wuse
market in Abuja describing it as ‘ethnicised’ and selfish.
The Presidency on Wednesday also criticised the #ResumeOrResign
group led by Charles Oputa, popularly called Charly Boy, for taking the
protests - calling for the resumption or resignation of the president -
to a sensitive spot like the Wuse market.
On Wednesday, dozens of pro-Buhari protesters gathered at the Unity
Fountain at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday and concluded their rally with a
solidarity march to the junction of Presidential Villa where they were
received by the presidential media aide and his colleague, Garba Shehu.
The protesters were chanting ‘Sai Baba Sai Baba’ and were
accompanied by security operatives down to the Presidential Villa where
they demonstrated their support for Buhari.
Femi Adesina, while addressing the protesters on behalf of the
presidency, condemned the Wuse market protests, and when quizzed on why
Charly Boy was attacked on Tuesday, he said what happened was an attempt
to ‘ethnicise the protest.’
“We are not for ethnic cleavages, we are for one Nigeria.
Anybody that attempted to ethnicise protests failed. Because everyone
has a right to protest and ethnicity is not something that should be
introduced to protest.
“Taking a protest to the market in the first place was wrong,
so whoever took the protest to the market place was the one that
attempted to make it get out of hand,” he added.
Adesina added that the presidency noticed that “some people have
made efforts to create ethnic cleavages in the country but that what the
people from the Niger Delta region did today has reinforced faith that
Nigeria will remain one.”
He said the message of his audience would be conveyed to Buhari.
“Just over the weekend we were with him in London and he told us that
he has been following events at home very keenly. We want to thank you
very much and urge you to keep this spirit of patriotism. This is our
country, we have no other one. Whatever we make of it, is what we get,” Adesina added.
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