Senator Shehu Sani warns Tinubu that angry Nigerians will not give notice before protesting.
Shehu Sani, a former senator from Kaduna, has counselled President Bola Tinubu’s administration to put in a lot of effort and address the economy in order to prevent impending protests by irate Nigerians.
According to the former federal lawmaker, unlike the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, this type of protest does not come with a notice.
Yesterday, after the NLC and the federal government had a verbal exchange after the former cancelled its two-day warning protest, Sani shared this advice via his X account.
The federal government had declared that the protest was inappropriate and advised the representatives of the Labour Union to hold off on running for president until 2027.
The NLC replied that Tinubu ought to deal with the issues of hunger, unemployment, and inflation that are killing people.
Reacting to the development, Sani said the most dreadful demonstrations are not from organised labour or civil society organisations that issue notice before embarking on it, but rather those staged by the unemployed, hungry, and homeless people who have nothing to lose.
He wrote, “The most dreadful protests are not the controlled ones organised by the Labour Unions, the organised civil society or the opposition parties.
“The protests this country should work hard to avert are the organic ones led by the hungry, the homeless, the unemployed, the downtrodden, and the dregs of the streets; this kind of protest doesn’t come with notice of date of commencement or date of suspension, this protest is the kind led by people who have nothing to lose but their shackles; this is the kind of protest the government and nation must avoid.”
