Barely 24 hours after the refusal of the people of Oyo State to participate in a solidarity rally for the present governor of the State, Engr Seyi Makinde, the Peoples Democratic Party in the state have come up with another means of getting the sympathy of the people by threatening the market women, artisans, NURTW etc to embark on a protest against the Court of Appeal ruling.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan had on Monday November 11, 2019 upturned an earlier judgment of the lower Tribunal which declared Engr Seyi Makinde of PDP winner of March 9 governorship election.
The governor and the party not knowing what to do have resulted to organising paid protests against the court ruling. Information gathered from a reliable source made known that the governor has directed his aides to start mobilising some market women and artisans across the state for another set of paid protest.
The source says the governor maintains that he is still the governor of this state and any market men or women that refuses to participate in the protest will loose their shops.
The governor had immediately set up a monitoring team to go round the market across the city and make sure no shops or business centre open so that the protest would be successful.
Meanwhile, the Oyo Youths for Transparency and Good Governance (OYTGG) has called on the traders in the state not to be intimidated by the threat of the governor, describing it as an "empty threat which holds no water". The group said it is very unlawful for any authority to stop the people from going to about to get their daily bread in order to participate in a protest against the ruling of the Appeal Court".
"We have had many judgment even against the ruling All Progressive Congress across the country and there was no report that any group were coarsed to embark on protest against court judgment".
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan had on Monday November 11, 2019 upturned an earlier judgment of the lower Tribunal which declared Engr Seyi Makinde of PDP winner of March 9 governorship election.
The governor and the party not knowing what to do have resulted to organising paid protests against the court ruling. Information gathered from a reliable source made known that the governor has directed his aides to start mobilising some market women and artisans across the state for another set of paid protest.
The source says the governor maintains that he is still the governor of this state and any market men or women that refuses to participate in the protest will loose their shops.
The governor had immediately set up a monitoring team to go round the market across the city and make sure no shops or business centre open so that the protest would be successful.
Meanwhile, the Oyo Youths for Transparency and Good Governance (OYTGG) has called on the traders in the state not to be intimidated by the threat of the governor, describing it as an "empty threat which holds no water". The group said it is very unlawful for any authority to stop the people from going to about to get their daily bread in order to participate in a protest against the ruling of the Appeal Court".
"We have had many judgment even against the ruling All Progressive Congress across the country and there was no report that any group were coarsed to embark on protest against court judgment".
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