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Ajaero: Arrest Poverty, Hunger, Not Innocent Nigerians -PDP Lampoons Tinubu
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for channeling its energy into arresting hunger and poverty bedeviling Nigeria instead of arresting innocent citizens.
This is coming amid the arrest of the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero.
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It said that the arrest of labour leaders, activists, protesters and innocent citizens could throw the nation into chaos.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, made this statement while reacting to the arrest and detention of Ajaero by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.
Ologunagba said, “There is a need for caution, there was a protest in this country, but the government did not do anything.
“You arrest some people and say they were terrorists and you charge them to court. You say some people were the sponsors of the protest.
”We know those who sponsored the protest. The sponsor is hunger, the President and his people; arrest hunger and there will be no protest.
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“Let your draconian policies, that are bringing people to their knees. This is the season school is resuming, we know what all of us are going through for those who have pupils in school.
“You wake up one morning, you cannot plan because the government is so insensitive and irresponsible, without consulting the National Assembly and come up with policies that destroy the plan of the people, destroy the opportunity to have what we call pursuit of happiness.”
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