The group said the President’s national broadcast on Sunday did not address the acute hunger and hardships which pushed millions of his citizens to join the protest.
The Yoruba Revolutionary Movement has expressed its total support for the ongoing nationwide protests against bad governance in Nigeria.
This was stated in a press statement issued by the group on Monday by its National Coordinator, Comrade Wale Balogun, while lambasting President Bola Tinubu for showing lack of empathy towards the feelings of Nigerians.
The group said the President’s national broadcast on Sunday did not address the acute hunger and hardships which pushed millions of his citizens to join the protest.
The statement reads: “The suffering and unprecedented hardship in Nigeria today warranted need for all men / women of conscience to rise up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to the unmitigated disaster that Ahmed Bola Tinubu led APC presidency anti poor policies and programmes has turned out to be.
“Nigeria youths gave more than a month's notice before they trooped out into the streets on Thursday 1st of August, 2024. In its usual characteristics, the Emilokan presidency and the APC lied to the world that the organisers of the protests are faceless, yet 4 patriotic Nigeria youths were sued to court, where a bọlẹkaja judgement was delivered by a compromised judge to stop the democratic rights of the citizenry to a peaceful protests. It should be noted that there was a court of appeal ruling that Nigerians have the democratic rights to protest any and all forms of government anti peoples policies and programmes, in a suit filed by the late Convener of the United Action for Democracy (UAD), Barr. Bamidele Aturu, and the ruling has not been vacated by any court of competent jurisdictions or the supreme court till date. Thus, the unlawful ruling was defied by the organisers of the protests who seized the streets as scheduled.
“Like the compromised Judge, the Vatican duo of Mujaheed Asari Dokubo and Sunday Adeyemo Ighobo exposed their narrow mindedness and lack of a proper understanding or due to outright compromise of the principles and processes in a liberation struggles.
"Shamelessly the duo joined the Tinubu political thugs (Team Lagos), threats to Lagosians not to be part of a peaceful protests meant to draw government attention to untold hardship of hunger, starvation and other forms of deprivations in the land.
“Sunday Adeyemo Igboho either out of ignorance or being compromised needs being told in clear terms that his NO TO #badgovernmentnationalprotests has exposed that he lacks the understanding and intellectual capacity to lead Yoruba cause for self determination.
"Is it not unfortunate for a self acclaimed liberation fighter to stop the people from expressing their democratic rights to a peaceful protests in a supposed democratic government? Was that not an act of ingratitude to a people who not only empathised but condemned the assassination attempt on his life? Was that not an act of betrayal for him to side with the oppressive class against thousands of admirers and supporters who stood by and solidarise with him when the same elite ruling class he wine and dine with today, wants to extradite or probably have him killed?
"The wind has blown open the rumpus of the hen, and we have seen that Igboho is not dedicated to the cause he championed and have gone back to his vomits as a willing tool and political thug of the ruling class. I dare say it with all sense of historical responsibility that Sunday Adeyemo Igboho cannot be trusted and entrusted to lead a genuine struggle for the sovereign state of Oodua Republic.
“In the same vein Asari Dokubo has further affirmed his consistent inconsistencies with his NO TO PROTESTS ranting in the South South. Happily, the ever vibrant youths from that part of the country, have shown that no political merchant will be entrusted with the political economic navigation of their destiny. Dokubo's case is akin to that of a Chief priest who divine that rain will be an aberration for months but before he packed his divination tools, heavy downpour becomes the order of the day.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu response to the ongoing peaceful protests in the country four days after it started is nothing but a clear disdain for Nigerians.
“The president has shown through the broadcast that the lives and social wellbeing of the citizens does not matter to him. The president has dared the people, and the subtle threat for the police and other fascist thugs to unleash terror on peaceful protesters is clear. The protesters and all Nigerians should know that the pauperised and dehumanised majority shouldn't have expected anything better from a president who gladly foisted unprecedented pangs and pains on them.
“We of YOREM stand behind patriots who are saying "Enough is Enough" to hunger, suffering and hardship. Inspite of personal threats to me and my family, I stand by the protesting youths behind the barricade.”