The Presidency on Tuesday accused 'Nigerian looters' of being behind the London protest, staged to disrupt President Muhammadu Buhari's official visit. NAN quoted an impeccable source in the Presidency as saying that the alleged looters had rented motley crowd of professional demonstrators to protest against President Buhari on his arrival to London. The source further said that the singular aim of the protest was to disorganize the President's visit.
“Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared his intention to contest for another term in office as President of Nigeria, the camps of alleged looters and corrupt elements within and outside the country have been jolted.
“This has forced them to push panic buttons including renting a motley crowd of professional demonstrators to protest against the President on his arrival into the United Kingdom.
“Esteemed Nigerians home and abroad, friends and business investors in Nigeria, should please see through the veil of the motive behind the Abuja House, Kensington London demonstration.
“It was an orchestrated act of desperation and a ploy to blackmail and hoodwink the President from concentrating on his anti corruption campaign, which is fast gaining grounds locally and internationally.
“This unpatriotic act is not unconnected to the Federal government policies to name and shame corrupt citizens and looters; to collate database of Nigerians with homes in UK who are not paying the right taxes, and the hot drive to prosecute all financial defaulters through bilateral and multilateral means,” NAN reports.
Meanwhile, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu has said the President will not be distracted from his missing to the Uk.
