The Presidency has reacted to the #RevolutionNow protests embarked upon in some parts of the country on Wednesday, August 5.
Reacting to the protests, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina described the protests as irritating and child’s play.
Adesina, who made this known during a Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday said the protests were carried out by only a few youths out of the 200 million Nigerians in the country.
The presidential spokesman noted that the protests are nothing to worry about adding that revolution is a mass thing and not a sprinkle of young boys and girls staging protests.
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Adesina said the issues the protesters were demonstrating about such as insecurity, corruption, poverty, and rights abuse were not peculiar to Nigeria and so the protests were misguided.
According to him, the N-Power programme, which gives unemployed youths temporary jobs and monthly stipends were one of the ways the government was addressing unemployment.
He disclosed that the President recognises the problems but they cannot be addressed in one fell swoop as he reiterated that the government will do whatever is required to maintain peace.
You will recall that some of the protesters were arrested in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, Abuja, Lagos and other parts of the country where the protests were staged.
