Northern Leader calls for protest against President Buhari

Balarabe Musa says Nigerians should protest against Buhari
Northern leader and national chairman of Conference of Nigeria
Political Parties (CNPP), Balarabe Musa has told Nigerians to
protest against President Buhari’s administration.
Daily Post quoted Balarabe as telling The Sun in an interview
that hunger is a powerful tool in instigating protests and since
the current administration has failed in ensuring food security,
then Nigerians have a right protect their interests by protesting
congressman for attacking Buhari
He however admitted that this could have dire consequences for
the Buhari-led administration.
He said: “ Well, they should protest. I know that it is a risk because
security men may shoot them. However, they should protest
because this is their life. Somebody is playing with their lives,
somebody is destroying their lives, they should defend their lives
and protect their interest.
“Before the last general election, many Nigerians saw Buhari as an
angel who could rescue the country from socio-economic problems
but Nigerians are now saying that they misjudged, and Nigerians
should in future make sure that they access any prospective leader
critically, taking into account his records, his inclination and
everything, particularly records of performance in office.
“Nigerians are not different from the rest of human kinds; they are
not different from the rest of the people in the world. Whatever
people did in the world to protect themselves or show their anger
against bad government, Nigerians can do it, and nobody should
deceive himself that Nigerians are so docile, that they will not
revolt. Anger pushes anybody to the limit.”
According to him, “The idea of government asking Nigerians to be
patient can only be sustained in a situation whereby people see
hope and changes. But where people don’t see changes, where they
don’t see the basis for expecting changes, and they suffer
continuously, appealing to them to be patient i may befutile.
“There is hunger in the land and Nigerians are dying of hunger. I
dare to warn the President and everybody that can listen, that
history has proved that mass hunger, hunger of the population,
mass poverty of the population, killer hunger have always been the
most immediate cause of proletarian revolution in every country of
the world. And the President should know this; let him not be
deceived by those who are benefitting from the current situation of
hunger.”
Meanwhile, Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi-West
Senatorial District has called on President  Buhari to take drastic
measures on the ailing economy, including the immediate sack
of the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, minister of budget and
national planning, Senator Udo Udoma and the Governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele.
Melaye, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, September 4, said
the president must shake up his cabinet and accused some
members of cabinet as lacking the capacity to deliver on the
mandates of their ministries and agencies.