Northern Coordinators of the #Endbadgovernance Protest across the 19 northern states have pulled out citing that the organizers have not done enough to provide security for the protesters.
The Coordinators had said that the decision to pull out was settled on after failure on the side of national organizers to resolve the pressing issues on how to safeguard protesters and wade off hoodlums from hijacking the process again.
In a joint statement signed by the Chairman and the Secretary of the Northern Coordinators of #Endbadgovernance Protest, Abdullahi Daura and Mohammed Musa Biu, respectively, they explained that the members were worried about a repeat of the violence that happened in Kano, Kaduna and other parts of the north.
The statement had read, “We have asked questions and written several requests for security cover at the convergence points in the north where people will join the protest action. But we are yet to get a clear answer and measures taken to avoid violence and looting of property.
“Against this background, we are urging all our members in all the nineteen states to obey the directives from the coordinators and pull until we get clearance from security agencies,” the statement concluded.
While assuring Nigerians about their resolve to put pressure on the federal government to rescind all the unfriendly policies that have caused unwarranted hardship in the country, the Coordinators also explained that the lives and property of innocent citizens mattered to them above anything.
