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fritiyo:
Why you dey lie, Peter Obi was never against the subsidy removal, he only spoked against the manner with which it. Was removed.
Show us where Peter spoked against the subsidy removal.

PDPdestroyer:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/youre-very-wrong-aisha-yesufu-disagrees-with-peter-obi-over-2012-protest/

DenreleDave:
Same coward line... No mind at all, fear fear people

Danisaint112:
Call it whatever you want but we are no fools or stupids like APshit and their supporters who believe the president and economy is doing well. Hence, no protest is even needed at all. Typical mindset of tribally brainwashed fools.

DenreleDave:
All these copy and paste from your obidient group chat

Jeffy1206:
Many people are getting the statement wrong. It was a subtle jab on the organisers of the protest like the likes of soyinka, Adewoye, Tinibu etc. Where are they now? 🤔

PDPdestroyer:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/youre-very-wrong-aisha-yesufu-disagrees-with-peter-obi-over-2012-protest/

Danisaint112:
Wow so this things actually exist. For you to assume I fall into this group, it's obvious you are one of those group or know well about it.
Shame on you all pretentious lovers of Nigeria.

Bobloco:
Those who organized, sponsored, and financed the 2012 Ojota protest against subsidy removal have now taken credit for removing the very subsidy they once opposed. This development underscores one clear reality: their actions were driven by political motives rather than genuine patriotism

DenreleDave:
Self dẹnial

Go back to ur obidient group chat and find another rubbish to copy and paste

PDPdestroyer:
Aisha Yesufu, an activist and one of the supporters of Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has openly disagreed with Obi’s recent comments on the 2012 Occupy Nigeria protest against fuel subsidy removal.

In a YouTube video uploaded on Thursday, Yesufu criticised Obi’s remarks that there was no need for protests during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration when fuel prices increased from N87 to N120.

She said, “First of all, I’m going to start with where Mr Peter Obi said there was no need to protest during Jonathan’s time. I think that’s a very wrong allusion to have like there’s no need to protest.”

Yesufu emphasised that protest is a fundamental right in a democracy, regardless of who is in power.

She said, “Let’s look at Nigeria for example and let’s look at countries in the other parts of the world where they are doing very well. People are protesting every day, there’s never a time where there’s no need to protest.

"And if Mr Obi thinks he’s gonna get into office and think people will not protest no matter how good he is, then he should drop that.”

According to her, should Obi eventually become Nigeria’s President, she would not hesitate to demonstrate if necessary.

Responding further, Yesufu countered Obi’s point, adding the Jonathan’s time of N120 per litre was also a better time to protest because the current situation was then, in the future and nobody protest what is in the future.

“What Peter Obi needs to understand, and what everybody needs to understand is that, at that time, people were protesting against N120. The N900 of today was in the future. Nobody protests for the future,” she argued.

“If there was any time a protest should have happened, it was during Jonathan,” the activist added.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/youre-very-wrong-aisha-yesufu-disagrees-with-peter-obi-over-2012-protest/

Konquest:
Bump.

Some people here were either very young OR are largely gullible with a very short memories. That Occupy Nigeria fuel subsidy protest was VERY necessary as of the time it took place as it made the GEJ government to pay more attention to the details they had ORIGINALLY ignored in their urgent plan to remove the fuel subsidy and increase the pump price WITHOUT a commensurate increase in salaries via negotiations, NO alternative refineries or CNG-FUEL sources and more.

The reason why there was resistance in Lagos, Kano, and elsewhere towards the fuel subsidy removal under Goodluck Jonathan is simply because NO alternatives or cushions were provided. Period.

There was NO new refinery like what exists now with Dangote Petrochemical Refinery in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos and it was because of the Occupy Nigeria protests that GEJ then conceded that a Greenfield Refinery would be built, but that was NEVER done until GEJ left office. Even Chimamanda Adichie and more was in support of the Occupy Nigeria fuel subsidy removal protests which Ibo traders were widely reported in the mass media to have ignored or boycotted in their South Eastern Nigeria markets.

CodeTemplarr:
N120 was around $0.65 back then. Today, thats over N1000. Obidients keep playing lazy politics with Naira floating by trying to make direct comparison before and after floating of Naira