The sacked chairman of the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Committee in Rivers Surrounding, Tony Okocha, has rubbished the new #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest, describing it as a rebel.
Okocha spoke in a while then he led a pro-Tinubu backup rally underneath the auspices of Coalition of Renewed Hope Nation in Rivers Surrounding’ in Port Harcourt on Tuesday.
The rally noticed Okocha teenage who displayed placards with inscriptions in backup of Tinubu from the Polo Membership in GRA to Aba Highway, all the way down to Isaac Boro Terrain, Storehouse Highway, Moscow Highway, and terminated on the Port Harcourt Polo Membership, the place he addressed the collection.
The march brought about a negligible visitors jam at some routes within the city as automobiles made detours and diverted to get to their respective locations.
Recall that Okocha, who following the sacking of his seven guy CTC by means of a Rivers Surrounding Prime Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt which reinstated Emeka Beke, a loyalist of the previous Minister of Shipping, Rotimi Amaechi, had at a information briefing on Monday unfavourable the judgment delivered by means of Justice Sika Aprioku, pronouncing the birthday celebration is heading for attraction.
Addressing the collection, he stated, “The folk you notice right here at their very own volition and freeness of center got here on this immense numbers, and also you noticed how non violent the procession used to be. That is what we name a protest.
“We’re marching for Mr President. We need to blank the rot that used to be conventional from August 1 to August 10. We consider that during Rivers Surrounding, you all know you’re from right here. Rivers Surrounding hasn’t ever been an epicentre for any protest or demonstrations.
“I used to be very lively within the #Endsars protest. Did you notice the SARS protest in Rivers Surrounding being as profuse and excruciating as what you noticed?
“So there must be a reason. That reason is the fact that the man who funded, the man who sponsored, the man who held midnight meetings with youths, I refused to call them hoodlums, is the only person that benefited from the 10 days of inactivity in Nigeria, especially in Rivers State.”
He took a swipe on the environment governor, Siminalayi Fubara, for providing to provide protesters cash for bread past, in line with him, his opposite numbers had been assembly community from other walks of hour and stakeholders to seek out answers to urgent problems.
Okocha stated, “And to additionally inform you, you noticed when the Governor stated that he would give them one thing for natural H2O and bread.
“When alternative governors in alternative states are circumspect. When governors in alternative states are busy assembly with all method and strata of community of their states, our personal governor drives freely to fee, I listen, or to wait the burial of someone’s mom in Khana.
Proceeding, Okocha known as for persistence, pronouncing, “We believe that Rome was not built in a day. All that Mr. President is doing are futuristic programmes. The President has recognised the fact of what education can do for the people.”