Amnesty International has warned that threatening demonstrators would tarnish President Bola Tinubu’s legacy.
Since the ‘End Bad Governance in Nigeria’ campaign gained steam on social media, many high government officials have recommended against protests, citing the risk of hoodlums hijacking the event.
They advised citizens to have faith in the current administration, citing the President’s commitment to resolving Nigerians’ welfare and concerns.
However, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, the Chairman of Amnesty International in Nigeria, praised security agencies for their democratic conduct.
“For anybody to come and say what you are doing is illegal or we will deal with you when you do that, you are actually undermining the President who so much believes in democratic tenets,” he said on Channels Television’s Dateline Abuja on Saturday.
“Let me thank the security agencies for realising that the initial threats they were making to brutally deal with protesters, especially peaceful protesters were actually undermining the integrity of the Tinubu administration,” claimed the president.
“They were making democratic reversal as the President himself is someone who believes in democracy and democracy gives opportunity for people to express themselves lawfully, peaceful.”