A chieftain of Peoples Democratic party in Delta and Commissioner for Works in charge of highways and urban roads, Comrade Reuben Izeze has urged youths and other Nigerians to further resist joining any uncoordinated hungry protests across the country which began on August 1.
The people, he said should rather embrace peaceful assembly.
Izeze, a former member of the state house of the assembly who had earlier expressed fears that the protest would be hijacked if necessary steps were not taken noted that uncoordinated protest had never favoured the majority of participants as organizers use it to seek relevance.
In a statement on the #EndBadGovernance protest, Izeze said; “While I am a subscriber to the use of peacefully organised protests as a form of political/economic negotiation and a constitutional right, I am totally opposed to the adverse effects of uncoordinated protests.
“As a student of history, I have read and witnessed how well-intended but uncoordinated protests have led to a conflagration of monumental proportions.
Giving instances of Students’ protests, the Petroleum Training Institute Effurun massacre of March 7, 2002, and the 1999/2000 Sheria protests across northern states among others, the commissioner said uncoordinated protests always end up as riots with disastrous consequences for the common man.
He said the organisers of the protest have a different meaning of hunger adding “Their definition of hunger is not the one familiar to you and me.
“Their own “hunger” is that which makes a supposedly educated and/or learned individual become a primitive Stone Age glutton.
“Their hunger means using the backdoor to grab political power after losing an election.
“These “hungry” people are simply “hungry” for political relevance and are using our collective frustrations to weaponise their inordinate ambitions.”
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