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APC Hired Us For Rally To Say ‘No To Protests,’ Abandoned Us Later With No Water, Food Or Money –Women Group Cries Out

A group of women reportedly hired by the All Progressives Congress(APC), for a counter-protest against the planned #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest have cried that they were abandoned after being used by the government.

Osun Defender had reported that over 400 Nigerian women held a rally against the planned nationwide protest.

It was gathered that some influential women leaders in the APC sent a circular to several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Abuja, asking them to mobilise 50 women each to Eagle Square, Abuja to be given 50kg bag of rice each as palliative.

However, after over 400 women were mobilised from various NGOs to Abuja, rather than get bags of rice as promised them, they were given banners saying, “Say No To Protest”.

They said their pictures were taken to make it look like they were not for the planned nationwide protest against hardship. Thereafter, they were left with neither rice nor transport fare as promised.

The circular sent to the NGOs on Friday and forwarded to SaharaReporters by a member of African Youth Union Commission, Esther Adelana, read, “URGENT: Good day distinguished young active citizens, please if you are in Abuja and can make your way to Eagle Square tomorrow Saturday 9am for palliative distribution by one of our partner accompanied with transport logistics. We need fifty young women.”

In a multiple viral videos trending online, some of the women said the APC and Tinubu’s government deceived them and left them stranded in Abuja after they were being used.

One of them said, “We were deceived into coming to Abuja for an empowerment rally only to be given placards for ‘Say No To Protest’. They didn’t give us water to drink, no food, no money.  They left us stranded.”

“We were called by Tinubu that we would be empowered to oppose the planned protest. We came and we were abandoned in Abuja,” she added.

Hafsoh Isiaq

Hafsoh Isiaq is a graduate of Linguistics. An avid writer committed to creative, high-quality research and news reportage. She has considerable experience in writing and reporting across a variety of platforms including print and online.

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