By Anthony Ogbonna
National leader of the All Progressives Congress Party, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has told protesting Nigerians to hang on to the APC party they sold to them and endure a little longer for the promised change to arrive. Tinubu assured the protesters that the Buhari-led government which the people voted into power is not running away from the change it promised Nigerians during campaigns.
Tinubu gave the comment on Monday while addressing the protesters in Lagos.
Recall that thousands of Nigerians took to the streets to protest the unfavourable situation in the country especially the economy. The protest which was to be initially led by popular musician, 2face Idibia later saw a last minute withdrawal by 2face citing plots by hoodlums to hijack the whole process and cause mayhem.
This was equally as pressure mounted on 2face from both the presidential spokespersons, Femi adesina and Lauretta Onochie on one hand and from the Lagos state commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni who even threatened to arrest 2face should he continue with the protest.
2face however, chickened-out and called for the cancellation of the protest. But, concerned Nigerians under the banners, #OnevoiceNigeria and #IsatandwithNigeria went ahead with the protest with big and popular personalities such as Charly Boy, sheyi Law, activist, Deji Adeyanju, Saharareporters’publisher, Omoyele Sowore among so many others joining the protest.
However, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu made out time to meet some of the protesting groups from where he told them the mind of the government concerning the predicaments faced by the people under the Buhari-led administration.
He said, “What we are going through now will be resolved. We are going through a historical phase of a country that is promising and holding the promise for you. There is a leadership on the line. And you have to live with that for now. Protest won’t solve the problem, will it, he asked rhetorically.”
He said re-planning is the solution to the problem. “Being responsive, being able to get engaged with you so that you will see the problems that we are facing.” “You are right”” when you say there is a lot of unemployment in the country, epileptic power supply and series of other un-commendable developments in the country. “In every political situation, we have the twist and turn. It cannot be straight all the time. We are the same victims. You carry a placard, i have been a placard carrier since when?”
“This government is a product of a protest. If you didn’t have a bad administration then, you won’t vote for us. You voted on our promises. We are just two years into that promise compared to sixteen (16) years that they took over that they could have made the changes.”
“Yes, we are working on the electricity. Without electricity, there could be no industrialization and explosion of employment opportunities for our people. That is in our head. But, it cannot grow like the mushroom. To fetch water out of the rock, you have to endure some blisters.”
“Be patient. Lets have faith in our leaders. We’ve continued to manage Lagos, you’ve seen progress. It’s because of the consistent application of our programmes. A time started in 1998, 1999 it was a terrible situation here in Lagos. Dead body on the street, no ambulances, LASU was completely disintegrated, extremely dangerous mortuaries. What do you have today? Because you endured then. Just go and endure again.”
“We sold APC to you, please hang on to it. You have your rights to vote against us during election if you want. But, i remain in the party because we will retool this party. We will retool this government.”
“The damage of over sixty years and sixty years of miss-governance cannot be turned around overnight. Let’s be patient. Let’s have the understanding. Let’s hang on to hope. There is nothing more effective that can drive you better than hope and belief in a positive turn of this situation.”
“We understand. We are not saying you are not suffering. We are not saying unemployment has not increased. I have no argument. But, economy cannot collapse one day. Systemic problem had occurred before now. Fine! We are not running away from that responsibility, we are going to face it squarely and we are going to bring prosperity back to the country.”
The protesters who wrote down their demands that included that the salaries of public office holders like the legislatures be slashed, provision of employment opportunities, involvement of more youths in the government, review of some outrageous allocations in the 2017 budget among others handed their request to the National ruling party leader who said, “You are making sense, we will do that.”
Tinubu also said to the protesters, “It’s your right to protest. Any misgovernance, any perceived bad treatment, no one should stop you. No one, Ok? However, if you get engaged, you don’t have to suffer the burning sun. I have given you the respect that you deserve. Please, go back, calm down, hang on to hope, visit me whenever it’s necessary, the job will be available,” Tinubu said.

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Able leader we believe you

The children of hate will always think otherwise

Nothing will ever satisfy them

Sleep with hatred in their hearts

Wake up with hate in their hearts

If it is not them then no one

God will put them to shame once more

Oya wiling wailers come and see the nightmare of your hero

He single handedly send your hero and heroine back to ogbia Lga precisely otuoke

Where he failed to give them even a single borehole

Bro Jonah is a failure

sarrki:
Nothing will ever satisfy them
Sleep with hatred in their hearts
Wake up with hate in their hearts
If it is not them then no one
God will put them to shame once more

Please Sarrki whats your relationship with APC! It seems you guys are 5&6¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

todayboy:
i was thinking sarki is dead
i did not see your comments on the protest

May your days be long

Let me educate you

The hatred for buhari is based on religion, ethnicity and
Bigotry

Children of hate just hate him cause it's in them to hate

Alphasoar:

Please Sarrki whats your relationship with APC!
It seems you guys are 5&6¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿

Brown I am not a member and not planning to be one

The truth is I love Mr president

No one is perfect

Children of hate just hate the man for no reason

I love asiwaju as well the nightmare of advanced wailers

Finally I love my country

todayboy:
i was thinking sarki is dead
i did not see your comments on the protest

Brown don't forget we live by rules here

Read rule 2

CSTR2:
The thread is not worth an ounce of intelligence.
I am out of here. Hate ko, hate ni.
If It is hate that made buhari a failure of the first order, then no president on earth will succeed . Even donald trump is hated by many and he just got sworn in weeks ago.
Afonjas reasoning like the stark illiterate they truely are.
The moronnic tinubu himself was the one asking the protesters how dollar affects Nigerians?Such stark illiteracy. Like leader, like follower.
Dumb leading the dumb. yeye people.

Please educate us more

Please with insight tell me how dollars affects the economy

Let's learn from Mr literate

sarrki:



May your days be long

Let me educate you

The hatred for buhari is based on religion, ethnicity and
Bigotry

Children of hate just hate him cause it's in them to hate

But i saw people of different religious and ethnic background protesting against him today


Plz reply with sense

sarrki:

Brown I am not a member and not planning to be one
The truth is I love Mr president
No one is perfect
Children of hate just hate the man for no reason
I love asiwaju as well the nightmare of advanced wailers
Finally I love my country

1. Why Brown'ning me? 2. Who are the 'children of hate'? 3. It seems you love the Leader more, why is that?

Permit me to digress. I don't miss GEJ. Honestly. I just miss the days of $100\b at 2.2 million pd level. When power was never constant with no gas pipeline bombings. GEJ never really (literally) ran the economy; it sustained itself. DON'T STUPIDLY QUOTE ME.

sarrki:
Oya wiling wailers come and see the nightmare of your hero

He single handedly send your hero and heroine back to ogbia Lga precisely otuoke

Where he failed to give them even a single borehole

Bro Jonah is a failure

will u keep quiet there young man. Seem u are part of those hungry fellow they gave 1000 naira to stand with the cow in the sun today. No vex us biko

Tinubu wants us to endure while his Son did his wedding in Milan and Dubai


Why are we cursed with useless idiots called leaders

Alphasoar:

1. Why Brown'ning me?
2. Who are the 'children of hate'?
3. It seems you love the Leader more, why is that?

Let me take question 2 first

By their words you shall know them

Full of hate

They talk hate, Breathe hatred, every fibre in their body is hate

Question 3 : the holy book says I should love, respect and pray for people 8n authority

I can't turn my self to children of hatred that hates for know just cause

CSTR2:

Educate you more. Abeg piss off.
Go and ask your dumb ethnic leader to educate you on afonjas economice.
Talking about hate like buhari is no longer the president with powers, because people hate him and for many good reasons.

As you can see that you don't even have facts

As you can see that you don't have facts

All you can do is to insult

That's their way

sarrki:
Able leader we believe you

The children of hate will always think otherwise

Hang there and keep believing. Your stupid leader tifnubu said we should not bother about forex that afterall we earn in naira, but the APC lagos media campaigned hard against get when naira was 140. It's safe to say that yorubas are truly the problem with Nigeria.

We were jejelly managing our Toyota 1999model with broken ac, but no, you people said you wanted volkswagen Beatle. Mtcheeeeeeew

sarrki:
Nothing will ever satisfy them

Sleep with hatred in their hearts

Wake up with hate in their hearts

If it is not them then no one

God will put them to shame once more

once like u b4,shouting Sai baba,while the old man and baba chair dey busy share money.10 naira biscuit is now 30 naira.Tin of 1kg Milo is now 1700 from 1200k.Make that u r baba Sidon for yonder,make he nor come back to Niagra

sarrki:


Let me take question 2 first

By their words you shall know them

Full of hate

They talk hate, Breathe hatred, every fibre in their body is hate

Question 3 : the holy book says I should love, respect and pray for people 8n authority

I can't turn my self to children of hatred that hates for know just cause

Now am getting you a little, but 'full of hate' for what/who?

from the headline

tinubu is a crazy psykhotic bastrad

what sort of slowpoke headline is that

suffering and smiling mentality of Nigerians

politicians capitalises on it
n there is the impotent unrepentant zombie above me

mykelmeezy:
from the headline


tinubu is a crazy psykhotic bastrad


what sort of slowpoke headline is that


suffering and smiling mentality of Nigerians


politicians capitalises on it

n there is the impotent unrepentant zombie above me

Please check your oil seal

It shows its leaking

Sarrki, repent,Nothing good can come out of ur baba.The old man and his Ministers are clueless

I am highly disappointed in Buhari's governance - Tinubu

ipobarecriminals:
Sarrki, repent,Nothing good can come out of ur baba.The old man and his Ministers are clueless

In other to come and join the children of hate ?

If I will be the last man standing I will

The issue of Nigeria is not buhari

It's the masses they love corruption

sarrki:

Please check your oil seal
It shows its leaking

i swear you need brainreset

you Re chronically dam.

i swear i need to meet you one on one

i will design your brain and destiny with one blow

puto

CSTR2:

The facts will never be enough for you. You are a zombie like your tinubu. If hunger and high cost of commodities has not wired the facts into your cerebellum then nothing can. Or maybe you are not hungry after betraying your fellow citizens for pittance from a dumb government of unprecedented proportions.
GO and kiss buhari's as$ like you are paid to do.

Bros stop speaking big big grammar

Tell me hoe it affects economy

Simple

mykelmeezy:




i swear you need brainreset


you Re chronically dam.


i swear i need to meet you one on one


i will design your brain and destiny with one blow


puto

You need to rewire the whole system

But this time you need a conduit pipe

Nnaa ehn i wish say i fit catch this small boy called sarrki for real life m gbotue ya bottle na isi