More groups on Friday, resolved to opt out of the planned nationwide protests against hardship in the country expected to begin on August 1, 2024. Also on Friday, Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil) Senator Heineken Lokpobiri; Chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo); Women Affairs Minister, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, Asari Dokubo, among others, appealed for restraint. However, the Take It Back Group, insisted on Friday, that they were going ahead with the exercise and demanded the Minister of the Federal Capital territory, Nyesom Wike to provide facilities at the Eagle square for them.
Owing to their request, Human Rights Activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun Adegboruwa, asked Egbetokun to provide security on that day, saying they would be exercising their constitutional rights. In what appeared as continued removal of wind from the sail of the action, several civil society groups from across the country not only developed cold feet but withdrew from the planned protests. From the South West, The League of Yoruba Youths for Advocacy and Good Governance comprising 94 indigenous youth groups decided to withdraw from the planned nationwide protests following a gathering of the youth leaders with acclaimed total members of over 55 million across 774 local government in Nigeria, led by the President General, Adediwura Adesina Also, a coalition of civil society Groups, Ka.