The Youth Wing of apex Igbo Socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Ndigbo has condemned the planned nationwide protest tagged 'Revolution Now", stressing that the action is a calculated time bomb hatched by some influential personalities to cause civil disobedience.
In a statement issued by the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro the group urged security agencies not to resort to confrontation against the protesters as there could be a possibility of a political trap and conspiracy set out to catch President Buhari.
“There are [plots] to derail his government or bring the Presidency into negotiation with the opposition by possibly getting his presidential approval to proceed and convoke a national dialogue for all ethnic nationalities in the country or implement the 2014 report of the National Confab.
“AAC presidential candidate Sowore’s arrest is capable of doing more damage. The proposed ‘Revolution Now’ protests is a calculated time bomb hatched by some influential personalities to bring civil disobedience and disturbances in the country.
“We urge the Federal Government to avoid the use of confrontation against the Revolution Now protesters and avert the revolution through the unconditional release of Sowore.
“Sowore will be made a hero if he continued to be in detention, as such violent protests is what is aimed to attract the sympathy of the international community and discredit President Muhammadu Buhari’s second tenure and the safety of Igbos scattered all over the country will not be guaranteed.
