According to the report from the Vanguard, a former presidential aspirant under the Labour Party and the leader of Rescue Movement For New Nigeria aka Rescue The Vulnerable Initiative, Comrade Faduri Oluwadare Joseph discussed how politicians often manipulate public opinion by labeling protests as instigated by specific tribes, instead of addressing the real concerns of the people>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE....CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
In the case of a Hausa president , he stated that politicians may claim protests are led by Yoruba people, and similarly with an Igbo president, protests might be attributed to Hausa or Yoruba groups.
He questioned whether Yoruba people have experienced significant improvements in their welfare under President Tinubu, asserting that this is not the case.
He emphasized that the current economic hardship, characterized by high costs of living, affects all Nigerians regardless of their ethnicity, as everyone faces the same challenges in the market.
He said, “If we have an Hausa man as president and there is protest, the politicians will mobilize their boys to tag it Yoruba people protest. If we have an Igbo man as president they will call it Hausa or Yoruba protest. Now that we have a Yoruba man as president they are trying to tag it Hausa or Igbo people protest.
But the question again is that, are the Yoruba people better off in terms of welfare than other tribes now a year after Tinubu took over? The answer again is a resounding NO! The hunger in the land doesn’t care about your ethnicity. Irrespective of your tribe we buy from the same market at unbearable outrageous high costs>>>CONTINUE FULL READING HERE
