This morning Tuesday, protesters have stormed the streets of Lagos and Abuja to make good their promise of hitting town in the #EndBadGovernance campaign.
Former Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress and #RevolutionNow organiser, Omoyele Sowore, joined the protest in Lagos.
Reports say police have attacked some in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, as they joined the #FearlessInOctober protest against hardships and poverty.
In Ikeja, Lagos, they sang the old national anthem as a sign of
defiance to the Nigerian government.
Sowore showed up at the Ikeja Under Bridge at exactly 8:50am.
Addressing newsmen, Sowore said the protest was a crucial step towards taking Nigeria to the “promised land” and it symbolised the people’s rejection of the government’s Independence Day celebration.
The first protests held between August 1 and 10, with security operatives killing no fewer than 30 Nigerians.
When they were leaving in August, the protesters had vowed to return in October.
However, despite a series of warning by security operatives, the protesters returned to the streets today, Tuesday.
The policemen in Abuja were seen shooting teargas canisters and ammunition at the protesters who were peacefully demonstrating against the hardship that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration has unleashed on them.
Videos emerged of the protesters scampering for safety in areas believed to be Jabi, Utako environs of the FCT.
Protesters chanted “We are hungry” as they marched on the roads.
Some of the banners they displayed are; “Bad Governance has ended the dreams of Nigerian youths, end it now” “Enough is Enough – Revolution Now.”
Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Comrade Omoyele Sowore, had invited Nigerians across the country to join him in the October 1st protest against hardships, privations, hunger, unemployment, insecurity, and poverty that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration has unleashed on Nigerians.
Sowore, who made the call in a post on Monday evening, vowed that he could not be silent or indifferent, in the face of the sufferings and privations that the Nigerian people are going through, noting that he will be on the streets of Nigeria to join with other Nigerians in protesting the hardships.
According to him, protests or revolts are the only tool that a people have to voice their opposition to the anti-people policies of their government, adding that it is a right that is enshrined in everyone’s gene.
Reminding Nigerians that he has spent five of the last six years either in prison, detention, or confinement by the All Progressives Congresss-led government, under trumped up treason charges that they were forced to withdraw, Sowore vowed that he will not relent until “our point- by-point by demands are met”.
