Hold APC Governors Responsible For Buhari’s Unfulfilled Promises – Lamido

On Friday, riots broke out in Ogun villages as youths demonstrated against the lingering new naira policy and the lack of petrol.
According to reports, the demonstrators blocked up the Mowe exit of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and turned away drivers and passengers.
According to information obtained by our correspondent, the demonstrators resisted police involvement and made threats to burn the local police station on fire.

Also, the rioters lit bonfires on the roadway, forcing drivers and passengers to hastily turn around.

Aside from travellers, commercial activities were disrupted in Mowe, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state, as shop owners closed their shops and scampered to safety.

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Also, the riots on Friday morning spread to the Magboro axis of the highway with travellers and road users turning back to the Lagos end of the road.
Meanwhile, the National Youth Service Corps members in the areas billed for election training on Friday were asked to stay back home and avoid the routes.
A security advisory to corps members from the Mowe Sub-Office Local Government Inspector and sighted by our correspondent, read, “Violent protest on Lagos Ibadan expressway. Magboro blocked
Ibafo burn fire. Mowe blocked.

“Stay safe A former governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido said Nigerians should hold the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC governors responsible for the unfulfilled promises of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Lamido stated this in an exclusive interview with Politics Hub, a Vanguard Online TV’s political show on Thursday.
According to him, the APC governors campaigned in 2014 on the ground of bringing a new order and change to a next level.

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He said, “It’s these APC governors now, who are now complaining after eight years, so you could see their contradiction.

“Since they came into government there’s been problem of EndSARS, APC governors never spoke. There’s been the issue of fuel subsidy, they never spoke so as the issue of insurgency and a numbe rof things which are very fundamental to the welfare of the Nigerian people, they never spoke.

“They are only speaking now on the issue of naira. So, it’s their own headache, it’s their own problem. It’s their own government. It’s their own policy of the government they brought in through blackmail, harassment and coersion. So, I wish them well in their own ordeal and agony.”

In the course of the interview, Lamido, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, told the anchor of the TV show, Bankole Idowu that the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN is pure an APC affair and theri own problem.

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He further stated, “I’m not a spokesperson for the APC, but then I believe the government has a purpose and reason for doing what they did. I’m not in APC, I’m PDP. It’s an APC government policy.
“But, we in the opposition, we are very obidient, we believe in law and order. We comply by the rules, because that’s what the rules are made for – to be obeyed.

“But, to me it’s purely an APC affair, it’s an APC policy, it’s an APC problem. If there are anger, anguish as a result of the policy, Nigerians should be wiser and vote for PDP,” he said.
and stay off. Till further information. I am however in touch with security agencies.”
The PUNCH had earlier reported that fighting erupted in some areas on the popular Lagos-Ikorodu expressway in Lagos State over the scarcity of the new naira notes and the hardship the policy has thrown Nigerians.

On Friday morning, ANAEDOONLINE.NG, gathered that suspected louts in Mile 12, Ketu and Ojota areas on the expressway, took to the road attacking commuters and creating chaos.

Details later…

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