Former Kaduna Central senator Shehu Sani has blamed the violent nature of the #Endbadgovernance protests against hunger and hardship in Northern Nigeria to President Bola Tinubu.
This comes after reports emerged of violent protests in some northern states.
There were also reports of protesters displaying the Russian flag, an act which experts have labeled as treasonous.
In response to these developments, Sani posted multiple times on his X account, holding President Tinubu responsible for the violence.
“Northern leaders must take lessons from the recent violent uprising in the region.
“The President must be held to account, but he is not the Problem or the Solution to the Problem,” he wrote.
The tweet read further, “The Governors, political, Business, religious, traditional leaders and the intellectuals of the region must converge and urgently come out with an implementable master plan to tackle the decades of endemic poverty and destitution, Illiteracy, Chronic underdevelopment, abject neglect, religious extremism and terrorism that has demonised the region and impoverished its people.
“Guns and tanks can suppress the flame but not extinguish the fire. The monster in our homes was not created in a day. The North should look at the mirror and not the telescope. We have the cattle to build our wealth, we shouldn’t be looking for a scapegoat.
“I believe that the Police can recover most of the items stolen during the protests except those bags of Rice.
“Anyone,foreigner or Nigerian, bringing his millions or billions to invest in our region will now have to think more than twice.He will now have to insure himself against Ransom and Riots
“The Lord gaveth Aliko the Wisdom, He refused to build his Kingdom near the desert, He built it near the Sea, Behold,his Lord saveth him from the rage of the Desert Storm.”
On Tuesday, Sani condemned the violence that followed the nationwide protests in the North, suggesting it was an attempt to overthrow the government.
Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Senator Sani claimed that a few days into the protest, money and foreign flags were distributed among the youths in the northern region.
“A day before the last protest, money was shared to the youths, and Russian flags were also shared. That shows that the whole intent of the protest is not simply about the policies and programmes of the government,” he said.
“There was an attempt to create an atmosphere where there would be an overthrow of the government. When you have this kind of situation, you will see that someone is writing a script for anarchy, lawlessness, and disorder. It is incumbent for someone like us to speak.”