The former spokesperson for President Bola Tinubu’s campaign, Josef Onoh, has explained that the South East’s lack of participation in the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protests is a demonstration against Nigeria rather than the Tinubu administration. According to Onoh, the region’s hesitation to join the protests stems from Nigeria’s failure to recognize the South East as a vital part of the nation. Onoh stated that other regions should not expect the South East to lead the current protests when the area feels excluded from leadership roles and important infrastructure projects in Nigeria.
His comments were in response to a tweet from Senator Shehu Sani, questioning the absence of protests in the South East, “ Why did the South East refused to protest when many south easterners were supporting the protest? ” In a statement, Onoh said, “ The South East is silent because the protesters demanded scrapping of the 1999 constitution and to replace it with a people-made constitution, without providing their own people-made manuscript for that new constitution. “The South East is silent because the protesters demanded that the president should toss the nation’s legislative arm of the government, the National Assembly, and exhibited ignorance of the President’s lack of constitutional powers to scrap any arm of the government. “The south east is silent because even under a democratic setting, the south east region is on high level of militarization, and the protester.