Decades of bad governance igniting protests

Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Yahaya, on Tuesday decried decades of maladministration in Nigeria blaming it cause of incessant protests.

Yahaya made this disclosure when he received a coalition of Gombe youths and Gombe students groups on a solidarity visit to the Gombe State Government House against the planned nationwide strike.

The governor said, “I have heard the demands and protest that you have brought on behalf of the youths. No leader in his senses will encourage violence to prevail in society. If violence is allowed it means there will be no peace and when there is no peace you can’t go to school and what will follow is the universities will be closed, colleges, secondary and primary schools will you allow that to happen?”

Lamenting the possible consequences of violent protest, Yahaya added, “If violence comes and takes place it will mean all our markets will have to close and there will be disruption will you allow that to happen?”

Blaming the root cause of the protest on decades of maladministration Yahaya added, “The leadership under my humble self is ready to give you protection, support you and we have been doing that that is what President Bola Tinubu is doing at the Federal Government.

“You see there are issues that is happening in Nigeria about maladministration, and miscalculations that took place over the past decades and it’s we as leaders that will now correct all the mistakes and take this country forward to the next level that is the target, that is why President Tinubu introduced students’ loan scheme, it’s support for students and parents and that is why despite calls in Gombe State for students fees to be increased I said no.

We didn’t increase because we want you to get free, quality education to the best of our ability.”

He urged those insisting on protest to get necessary approvals, adding “We say no to protests, demonstrations, we say no to the trouble people are trying to cause in the country despite the economic hardship that will take Nigeria to prosperity.”