South-East Stakeholders Rally Youths, Others Against Nationwide Protest

Stakeholders from the South-east region under the platform of South East Youth Development for Good Governance and Better Development (SEYDGGBD), has pleaded with youths from the zone to shun the planned August 1st nationwide protest.

The group, which comprises political figures across different political parties, professionals, businessmen and women, emerging leaders, students and people from the diaspora, said the real motive behind the protest and their identities are not known, hence the people of the region should be circumspect and not to participate.

In a statement released after an emergency meeting of the stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja, signed by its National Coordinator, Hon. Henry Ejiofor said the region should not pay well for evil even as President Bola Tinubu recently assented to the South East Development Commission Bill.

The group reminded the people of the zone to bear in mind the efforts of the region’s governors and individuals in securing the freedom of Nnamdi Kanu.

Ejiofor said the bill assented to by the President will amplify the commitment to the real rehabilitation and reconstruction of the South-East, 54 years after the civil war.

According to Hon. Ejiofor, the recent development in the South-east by both the federal and the state governments, especially the commissioning of Abia Power Projects, which is one of its kind, will make Abia state to enjoy 24 24-hour electricity supply which will revive major industries in the South-East region.

He said: “As a forum, we are making this national call to South East youths and others across Nigeria not to allow faceless individuals to use them.

“As a region, we are grateful to President Ahmed Bola Tinubu for signing the South East Development Commission Bill, and also to South East leaders that facilitated the bill.

“We are out today to discourage the South easterners from involving themselves in the well-publicised nationwide protest for the major reason of the ongoing developmental strides that the present government has put in place, and the good work the present crop of Governors in the region are doing,” the group added.