You’re just seeking attention, Buhari will not resign, APC youths tell Charlyboy

The scheduled protest by controversial entertainer, Charles Oputa, better known as Charlyboy expected to take place in Abuja Monday demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari return immediately or tender his resignation has been condemned by the All Progressives Congress Youth Vanguard.

In a lengthy statement signed by the leader of the group, Collins Edwin, the planned protest which is expected to have other known personalities like Nollywood star, Jim Iyke, in attendance was put down by the group which also noted that Charlyboy is an incurable attention-seeker.

The statement urged Charlyboy to stop making ‘senseless noise’ because governance is not entertainment and it also reveled that a comprehensive list of politicians within and outside the APC who are sponsoring the protest and negative publicity against Buhari will be made public to Nigerians.

Read full text of statement below;

‘The planned protest against President Muhammadu Buhari by a coalition of civil society groups led by Charly Boy has come to the notice of the national leadership of APC Youths Renaissance.

“Ordinarily, we would have dismissed the move knowing that Charly Boy is an incurable attention-seeker, but because he cleverly laced his mercantile show-business in President Buhari’s health challenge, we have decided to educate the political dissident that governance is not entertainment.

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“President Buhari has just spent few days receiving medical attention and Charly Boy and his dubious sponsors are making senseless noise about it, what about a former American President who ruled America in the midst of greater health challenge yet Americans never gave a hoot about it.

“In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated until the end of his presidency, yet Americans did not call for his resignation or impeachment, but here in Nigeria, we have a President who is only on a medical check-up and some group of attention-seekers are making it to look as if it is anathema.

“For Charly Boy and his sponsors to organise such protest against our darling President, we have resolved and are going to stage a counter protest that will show the world that President Muhammadu Buhari is truly loved by Nigerians despite the media gang up against him.

“We have also collected the comprehensive list of politicians within and outside the APC who are sponsoring the protest and negative publicity against Buhari and will make it public for Nigerians to see who and who is actually preventing good governance from happening in the country.”

The protest by Charlyboy which will be coordinated under the umbrella of a coalition of civil society groups, would according to reports hold both in Abuja and around the Abuja House in London simultaneously.

According to a statement released by the coalition of civil society groups on Saturday, the protest would not be a one-off, as it will continue in the form of a sit-in at the Unity Fountain Abuja, until the president returns or resigns.

 

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