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Port Harcourt Erupts In Protest As Fubara Addresses Protesters

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Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital erupted in protest on Thursday with protesters emerging from different parts of the city despite the threats made by militant leader, Mujaheed Asari Dokubo against protesters, and the appeal by Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

The protesters, who were aware of the tight security presence around the city, moved peacefully, initially in clusters and then proceeded to some designated protest grounds, including the Federal Secretariat along the Port Harcourt/Aba Road.

There had been high-level security meetings with security chiefs serving in the state with representatives of government, while Governor Siminalayi Fubara held a meeting with youth and other interest groups wherein he discouraged them from going ahead with the protest.

Also, Dokubo had declared that protest would not be tolerated in the state while urging Nigerians to give President Bola Tinubu more time to fix the country.

But the protesters, mainly youths, some of whom said that Fubara had a meeting with youths motivated by greed, and selfishness, knelt down on the road and pleaded with elected officials, to serve the people and make life better.

They said that it was unacceptable for the country to face hunger challenges in a land “that ought to flow with milk and honey” noting that it was appealing that politicians are using their positions to amass wealth for themselves and unborn generations while neglecting those that elected them into office.

But it was a different issue at NTA Road by Jovit, where some protesters came out with sticks, barricaded the road and dared whoever wanted them to shun the protest to come out and face them.

The sight of the protesters in the early hours of the day prevented some motorists from plying that road as news speed to people who pass through that axis to work that there was already “mayhem at NTA Road junction,” even when the protest had not started.

Meanwhile, some of the protesters who marched along Aba Road headed straight to Government House, Port Harcourt where Fubara addressed them.

The governor told the protesters that they have the constitutional right to protest, but should do so peacefully. Governor Siminalayi Fubara appeals to protesters to exercise their constitutional rights peacefully.

The governor said that he felt their pain and that efforts are ongoing to address them, urging them to trust that the issues they raised would be addressed.

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