Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has said that hooliganism is going on in the Aso Villa, adding that it was President Muhammadu Buhari who was presiding over it.
This is her response to a threat by the President that whoever exhibit hooliganism in the guise of #ENDSARS protest would be dealt with.
While on a programme on ‘Arise TV’ on Tuesday, Yesufu said it had become the tradition of the President to stereotype Nigerian youths, adding that it was the citizens’ office that was supreme and not the rulers’.
She said:
”I think it’s very disrespectful for people that we put in office to keep looking at us and telling us all sorts of things and then citizens are the ones that are supposed to be respectful to the people in office.
“If there’s anywhere where there is hooliganism going on, I think it’s at the Aso Villa and the president is the one presiding over that and we’ve had to feel the depth of that hooliganism and it’s very unfair for the president to look at protesters, people who are tired of what’s going on in the nation to say something like that. That’s not the kind of language the president should be using.
“He has consistently over the years since he was elected denigrated Nigerians both in and outside of the country and every time he speaks it’s that tone he uses and it has to stop. The highest office of this nation is the office of the citizen.
The office of the President is the highest political office in the land and we should always remember that we are not slaves to them, we put them there to serve us and that’s why they are called public servants.”
The #ENDSARS protesters returned to the street on Monday, although only in a few places that included Abuja and Lagos, in spite of threats by government and the police.
