The Youth Wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has raised the alarm that a group of people is planning a protest in Abuja on Monday against the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma.
It said the protest, being staged under the banner of a coalition of civil society organisations, was allegedly being sponsored by an APC governor from the South-West.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Ohanaeze asked the police and other security agencies to be on alert, saying the protest was actually targeted at destabilising the polity and hurting the establishment.
In the statement signed by the National Youth Leader of Ohanaeze, Comrade Ogbonnia Wenceslaus, and the Secretary, Hon. Chikwudi Dike, it disclosed that a former disgraced leader of the National Association of Nigerian Students was coordinating the protest.
“Most of the sponsored protesters are currently lodged in various hotels in Abuja ahead of the protest, which ostensibly is being organised to level various spurious allegations against Uzodimma,” Ohanaeze said.
It wondered what the interest of the so-called coalition of civil society organisations was in the affairs of the Progressive Governors Forum, if not to cause a breach of the peace.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing knows that this protest has nothing to do with any disagreement among members of the Progressive Governors Forum. It is actually targeted at heating up the polity against the establishment,” it insisted.
It therefore urged the Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies to be on the highest alert, lest the so-called protest become a smokescreen to breach law and order in Nigeria.
While warning the sponsors to desist from what it called subversive and nefarious activities or face dire consequences, Ohanaeze expressed confidence in Uzodimma in his role as Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum.
