President Bola Tinubu has asked protesters not to allow enemies of democracy use them to topple a Civilian Government.
In his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, Tinubu said democracy has been enjoyed in Nigeria for 25 years, highlighting its dividends.
On Saturday, photos and videos of protesters in Kano waving the Russian flag went viral as the demonstrators chanted in Hausa, “We don’t want bad government.”
Hundreds of mostly underaged youths urged President Vladimir Putin of Russia to intervene in Nigeria.
“We are raising the Russian flag because we believe Tinubu is playing his imperial masters’ scripts—the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the United States of America,” a protester reportedly told TheCable.
Russia, an Eastern power currently in a cold war with the West, has been implicated in coup d’états in West African countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
While President Tinubu did not explicitly mention Russia in his speech, he urged that enemies of democracy should not be allowed to advance unconstitutional agendas.
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