Senator Ajibola Bashiru, National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has publicly criticized Atiku over the planned nationwide protest.
Speaking on a recent interview on Channels Tv’s Politics Today, Bashiru stated that he expected Atiku Abubakar to lead the planned nationwide protest. In his words “as far as I am concerned, talk is very cheap”. I expect Atiku Abubakar on the day of the protest to lead. Nobody has stopped somebody to protest.
Protest is not about bad governance because when you talk about bad governance there are many parameters that come into play. I don’t know if you have seen the charter of the so-called leaders. Their demands are political,he added.
Atiku had earlier criticised the Federal Government and its agencies for trying to abort the planned August 1 protest across the country.
Bashir asserted during the interview that the planned protest is political. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and our party, the APC have not stopped anybody from protesting, he said. At various radio and TV stations different people come with ideas some of them adverse to our government. Has anybody been arrested for criticizing our government? That is what democracy is all about heterogeneity of ideas.
“They said we should scrap the 1999 constitution and replace it with people made constitution, we should do away with the Senate and then the issue of minimum wage. The President has addressed the question of minimum wage.”
Basiru added that the Tinubu administration was working hard to solve the challenges facing Nigeria.
