₦airaland Forum

protest at your own peril

JAPA is the only way that can save us the youths.

i was at lekki protest 2020 and i did witness the disaster,na from there i take know say this country no fit good

emkz:
While the article looks like PR for the government, I think the protests failed for the following reasons:

(1) Nigerians are still reeling from the outcome of the August protests where people's homes were bungled, personal properties were destroyed, including people's cars; destroying common public properties like street lights and public utilities; and people called for regime change and asked for Russian intervention. It must also be included, those who died and whose names have never been known or photographs released, with the protest leaders showing no regard for their families.

(2) Historically, successful protests were organic, not mechanical as the Nigerian #FearlessInOctober. You do not give dates for protests. You just hit the streets. The immediate cause of the Arab Spring was a Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire when the wares he sold to sustain himself were seized.

(3) General suspicion of one of the protest leaders, who is seen to using the protest to express his grievances for coming 9th in the 2023 elections with less than 15,000 votes, as the people of his own home state did not reckon with him.

(4) Protest fatigue. People are generally tired of hitting the streets as they have realized protests are easily hijacked and the motives of protest leaders are insincere. For example, some of the arrowheads of the #EndSARS protests suddenly transmuted to treasurers of politicial parties where they squandered donated funds without proper accounting; became emergency activists, living la vida loca, and so on. One of them who claimed to be a lawyer to the August protesters used it to promote his legal business and suddenly started representing some people eben though he lacked cognate legal experience. For example, he filed a bail application for one VDM, but got a lawyer from Falana and Falana Chambers to argue the bail application: why couldn't the pseudo-social crusader argue the bail application himself? Talk about contracr scam, where politicians collect contracts, collect their share without doing anything and give the contract to someone else to execute.

(5) Some of the arrowheads of the August protest stayed away from the October protests. They were probably shortchanged in the funds one of them received and realized they were being used to promote someone else's pecuniary interest.

(6) People are too weak, they are suffering too much to have the strength to join any protest.

I made several comments on the October protests as I envisaged the protests would flop:

October 1st, 2024


September 30th, 2024

Mohamed Bouazizi self immolation triggered lots of chain reaction

LegendHero:
It flopped majorly because of apathy. People know protest won’t solve the structural problem.

Also, protest in Nigeria is never genuine, it is an avenue for some people to become rich, blackmail the government, get paid behind, and lead frustrated youths to the street without any plan.

Check the October protest demands, most of them are impossible to execute even in 3 years. How can you demand almost 50 things in a protest.

na headless mob
wetin u expect?

It failed because Africans are naturally divided against each other. We are wired to succeed individually and almost never as a group. The African factor must certainly crip in. (The factor of Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, idoma, Fulani, Ijaw , North, south, east and west).

Go back to History, the more we come together, the more divided we become.

Something is intrinsically wrong with black people. It's as simple as that

LegendHero:
Peter Obi is a boy.

Stop mentioning that boy when we are discussing about men and protest.

I'm apolitical and I'm not Igbo. But for you to call that man a boy shows your maturity status.

The protests failed because the government and its state sponsored agents successfully sowed the seeds of ethnic profiling and racism.

They made it seem it was a particular ethnic group sponsoring the protests. So other ethnic groups also exercised caution.

Also, they used intimidation tactics by using security agents to clamp down, harass and kill protesters while also sponsoring thugs to attack genuine and peaceful protesters.

MrJames007:
I'm apolitical and I'm not Igbo. But for you to call that man a boy shows your maturity status.

Are you saying Obi is an Ibo candidate?

LegendHero:
If I am on the ballot as a SW candidate, I will defeat Obi. Even Portable will defeat him.

Obi is a boy.

I don’t want to be a political jober again. Make I send you my CV make you give me work?

Obi defeated your Lord and personal savior in his acclaimed strong hold let alone you that is no bo*dy.
Meanwhile, na you know why bring in Obi in the conversation, I don't give a fu*CK if he wins or not

nasbiafra:
protest at your own peril

JAPA is the only way that can save us the youths.

i was at lekki protest 2020 and i did witness the disaster,na from there i take know say this country no fit good

Why Lekki instead of Upper Iweka!

Protest at your own risk

ubimagos:
Why Lekki instead of Upper Iweka!

i reside at ikate elegushi at the time of the protest,you are just trying to be stupid.

PR for the government as usual
I no blame the write sha. He or she has to eat.

Shame on all you that are against protesting… all of us will suffer it one way or another

pointblank247:
The protests failed for the following reasons.

Nigerians are divided. The North refused to protest during PMB's 8 years misrule now Yoruba saw that and backed out of the Oct protest and supported the tyrant of Iragbiji.

Ndigbo were indifferent so they did not join.

The North could not do it alone.

Most importantly, this government bribed the thunder

So those protested in August in most Southwest city were from where? I'm very sure they were not from East or North

After what happened at Lekki toll gate and across Lagos state, ppl no to get the genuine spirit to come protest.

Give ppl free will to loot, protesters go full Lagos State, but as Government don employ all area thugs (chief looters) everywhere choke.

Average Nigerians no won die, when e reach that level nobody go tell us say na fish dey inside sardine.

Plus government knows how tribal card dey play, dem still use that one dey divide the people.

We add, government multiply, we subtract, government still divide us. Who come smart pass?

David0002:
Because of the crackdown by security operatives.

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emkz:
It is no longer news that the #FearlessinOctober protests failed.

Why?

This article chronicles the reasons for the failure of the #FearlessinOctober protests.



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/06/why-the-october-protest-flopped/

How does increase in salary increase productivity.
Just saying nonesense creating sense of entitlement on citizens

Hmmm, awesome


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH0bYbno6EI?si=DG9NnpUqgxE9yrwy

LegendHero:
If I am on the ballot as a SW candidate, I will defeat Obi. Even Portable will defeat him.

Obi is a boy.

I don’t want to be a political jober again. Make I send you my CV make you give me work?

nasbiafra:
i reside at ikate elegushi at the time of the protest,you are just trying to be stupid.

I only asked a question, oh! why not your dot in a circle but another man's city built by their old and present leaders?

LegendHero:
It flopped majorly because of apathy. People know protest won’t solve the structural problem.

Also, protest in Nigeria is never genuine, it is an avenue for some people to become rich, blackmail the government, get paid behind, and lead frustrated youths to the street without any plan.

Check the October protest demands, most of them are impossible to execute even in 3 years. How can you demand almost 50 things in a protest.

Are you saying Tinubu's 2012 Ojota protest was not genuine?

emkz:
While the article looks like PR for the government, I think the protests failed for the following reasons:

(1) Nigerians are still reeling from the outcome of the August protests where people's homes were bungled, personal properties were destroyed, including people's cars; destroying common public properties like street lights and public utilities; and people called for regime change and asked for Russian intervention. It must also be included, those who died and whose names have never been known or photographs released, with the protest leaders showing no regard for their families.

(2) Historically, successful protests were organic, not mechanical as the Nigerian #FearlessInOctober. You do not give dates for protests. You just hit the streets. The immediate cause of the Arab Spring was a Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire when the wares he sold to sustain himself were seized.

(3) General suspicion of one of the protest leaders, who is seen to using the protest to express his grievances for coming 9th in the 2023 elections with less than 15,000 votes, as the people of his own home state did not reckon with him.

(4) Protest fatigue. People are generally tired of hitting the streets as they have realized protests are easily hijacked and the motives of protest leaders are insincere. For example, some of the arrowheads of the #EndSARS protests suddenly transmuted to treasurers of politicial parties where they squandered donated funds without proper accounting; became emergency activists, living la vida loca, and so on. One of them who claimed to be a lawyer to the August protesters used it to promote his legal business and suddenly started representing some people eben though he lacked cognate legal experience. For example, he filed a bail application for one VDM, but got a lawyer from Falana and Falana Chambers to argue the bail application: why couldn't the pseudo-social crusader argue the bail application himself? Talk about contracr scam, where politicians collect contracts, collect their share without doing anything and give the contract to someone else to execute.

(5) Some of the arrowheads of the August protest stayed away from the October protests. They were probably shortchanged in the funds one of them received and realized they were being used to promote someone else's pecuniary interest.

(6) People are too weak, they are suffering too much to have the strength to join any protest.

I made several comments on the October protests as I envisaged the protests would flop:

October 1st, 2024


September 30th, 2024

No, it flopped because of one major reason, Nigerians are not united and when I mean united, I mean tribally and regionally united and thanks to Tinubu and some Yorubas for that especially in the south...

After the Yoruba Ro.u saga during the End SARS protest in 2020, I said no protest in Nigeria may ever work again...

They killed every form of southern unity with that slogan especially for protest...


How can you join someone to do protest and then turn around to start blaming the people who joined you?

Nigeria's unity is at its worst ever since Nigeria was formed, thanks to Tinubu, he got that one...

the question you ask did not make any sense,i was talking about something that happened in lekki and you mentioned upper iweka,lekki and upper iweka resemble

ubimagos:
I only asked a question, oh! why not your dot in a circle but another man's city built by their old and present leaders?

you know waiting you dey do,just try mature nor be everytime we go dey mumu

NairalandForumo:
Are you saying Tinubu's 2012 Ojota protest was not genuine?

Yes, he is a politician and he’s protesting because his interest is about making sure PDP collapse.

Why do you think opposition politician protest in every country of the world?

LegendHero:
Yes, he is a politician and he’s protesting because his interest is about making sure PDP collapse.

Why do you think opposition politician protest in every country of the world?

So he was doing for his selfish interest right?

LegendHero:
Peter Obi is a boy.

Stop mentioning that boy when we are discussing about men and protest.

Babablu and nonsense. Wetin concern discussion and vultures?

Park one side!!

LegendHero:
Are you saying Obi is an Ibo candidate?

Dat one concern u

What reason(s) could be more valid?!