Nationwide Protest: Sponsors Don’t Love Nigeria, Have Alternative Passports – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, said those sponsoring the planned nationwide protests do not love the country.

The President stated this at the Presidential Villa while receiving a delegation of Islamic leaders led by Sheikh Bala Lau, adding that the sponsors have alternative passports.

Though he did not identify any sponsor, he said those championing the cause of the protests hold meetings virtually across the world.

A statement by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, quoted Tinubu to have said, “The sponsors of protests do not love our country. They have no love for the nation. They do not understand citizenship. They have alternative passports.

“They are in different parts of the world holding meetings virtually. We do not want to turn Nigeria into Sudan. We are talking about hunger, not burials. We have to be careful. We should be careful with premature politics; politics of hate, and anger.

“The internet has made it possible to hold meetings in artificial settings. They hold meetings and sponsor anger.”

President Tinubu argued that protests, fuelled by anger and hate, could degenerate into violence and set the country backwards.