Hardship Protest: Shops, Markets Shut As Thousands Of Youths Pour Into Rivers

Thousands of enraged young people flooded the streets of Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, on Thursday to express their dissatisfaction with Nigeria’s current economic situation.

Some of the youths clad in the Nigerian flag, called for an end to bad governance, blaming president Bola Tinubu for the current economic woes

The protesting youths, who also carried placards with inscriptions such as “we deserve better governance not corruption,” “Nigerians are dying daily, let us take it back,” and “we are saying no to high fuel prices, food prices, hunger, and bad governance,” began the protest around the Rumuola axis of the Port Harcourt-Aba motorway and ended at the government house.

One of the protesters who gave his name Johnson said they were not protesting the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, but against the federal government.

He stated, “We are not here to protest Governor Fubara; rather, we are here to protest Tinubu’s bad government; we want Tinubu and Akpabio to resign.”

Addressing the crowd, the Governor urged the youths to be peaceful, be however expressed fear that the peaceful protest could be hijacked by enemies of the state.

However, Governor Fubara promised to relay the youths’ concerns to the president.