Yar’Adua: Soyinka, Ojukwu, Musa to lead mass protest

All appears set for a mass rally on Tuesday in Abuja to protest against President Umaru Yar’Adua’s failure to transfer power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, 49 days after he travelled out of the country for treatment in Saudi Arabia.

Those lined up to lead and speak at the rally tagged ‘Enough is enough’ include Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; former Kaduna State governor, Alhaji Balarabe Musa; the Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Pastor of the Later Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare.

Others are Mallam Farouk Adamu, Mr. Solomon Asemota (SAN), Mallam Uba Sani, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), Hajiya Najatu Mohammed, Prof. Pat Utomi, Pastor Sarah Omakwu, Mr. Femi Falana, Mr. Olawale Oshun, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, Mrs. Ayo Obe, Mallam Naseer Kura, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, Mr. Uche Onyeogocha, and Mr. Clement Nwankwo, among others.

Coming together under the aegis of ‘Save Nigeria Group,’ the protesters are also expected to press against what they described as power vacuum in the country, vacillation over electoral reforms, terror tag on Nigerians and corruption.

According to a statement signed by Mr. Fred Agbeyegbe, Mallam Buba Galadima, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, Mallam Tanko Yunusa and Mallam Salihu Lukman on behalf of the organisers, the rally will take off from Unity Fountain, near Transcorp Hotel, Central Business District, Abuja and terminate at the National Assembly Complex.

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, who spoke in his Ilawe-Ekiti, Ekiti State hometown on Saturday, confirmed that the rally was to protest against many of the problems facing the country.

He said, “We are starting a series of protests on Tuesday in Abuja. The government must be forced to address issues such as 6,000 megawatts of electricity and absentee President. We will challenge the policy that allows those on level 16 and above to go abroad for medical checks and treatment. It is discriminatory and we will resist it. The people in government are too comfortable; we must force them to do the right thing.”

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nairalanders must watch out for me.
i have been appointed to be one of the speakers but it is really unfortunate that my name is included in the among others sections but all the same, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"
see u in abuja