The Mayor of Urhoboland, Eshanekpe Israel, also known as Akpodoro, has urged President Bola Tinubu to address Nigerians in a nationwide broadcast, following the violent turn of events in the protest that began yesterday across the country, News About Nigeria reports.
He made this call while speaking on the sidelines at a stakeholders meeting held at his instance to review developments arising from the unwarranted civil disobedience in Abuja on Thursday.
He noted that a national broadcast by the president would douse the tension and the reign of criminalities across the nation, adding that it would also placate the protesters to stop the rampage against the current administration, which he described as embarrassing, and restore normalcy in the country.
Akpodoro, who was one of the major critics of the planned protest, also called on the President to immediately arrest the sponsors of the protest in Kano, Kaduna, Borno, and other states where the supposed peaceful protest culminated in violence occasioned by the looting of both private and public properties and the loss of lives.
According to him, the fears of the government and well-meaning Nigerians who appealed again for the premeditated reign of terror by hoodlums have been confirmed in the ugly incidences recorded across the states, save for a few.
“The sponsors of the protest are unpatriotic elements who are hell-bent on undermining democracy in the country.
“Roads were blocked and bonfires made in major cities, all in their bid to provoke reactions from the security agencies. The protest has been criminalised as hoodlums, street urchins filed out in their numbers to loot government and private properties needlessly.
“For instance, a secretariat in one of the states in the North was broken into, and the iron fence was scattered and ferried away by the so-called hungry protesters. How would an iron quench the so much taunted hunger that is used as a plank to launch out their arsenals for crimes? A particular one was seen making efforts to remove a traffic light in Kano, perhaps to quench his hunger. Such is the ignorance of the miscreants that the sponsors of the ‘days of rage” unleashed on our nation. The president must stop it lest it escalate. My surprise is, where is the mouthpiece of the criminals, the counsels of the rule of law and those whose joy it is to see Nigeria bleed, the hypocritical activists who go on national televisions, arrogating to themselves the monopoly of understanding our laws/constitutions? The enablers of the raging criminalities must be apprehended immediately,” he stated.
