Illustrative photo
A 26-year-old undergraduate, identified as Nura Iliyasu, has
mounted a 50-metre mast overlooking the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on a
7-day hunger-protest against what he called bad leadership by the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
According to a report by Daily Sun, while calling on the
opposition political parties to unite and produce a formidable
candidate that will take over the leadership of the country and salvage
the her, Iliyasu said his one-man protest was against “national indirection, pervasive hunger and starvation, un-godly generic poverty, youth redundancy and hopelessness.”
In addition, he is protesting against what he termed “schizophrenic
governance, souring foreign-exchange, high commodity prices;
dysfunctional refineries and textile industries, elites medical
tourism abroad; continued kidnappings and other negativities too
numerous to mention.”