Support Groups plan protests in Abuja, Other Cities For Emefiele

Plans by Support Groups sympathetic to the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, to stage massive protests which may turn out to be violent have been uncovered.

This development is coming in the wake of a report that the Department of State Security Services, DSS, was investigating the banker.

Dependable sources privy to a meeting allegedly organised by the duo of Tochukwu Ohazuruike and Godwin Meliga at Rockview Hotel, Abuja late Monday night disclosed that the protests are targeted at the DG of DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi.

The source stated that, “at the end of the meeting, it was resolved that the next protest starting from Wednesday 21st December will be massive and mother of all protests”. He went further to say that, “through out this week, we agreed to protest from Wednesday till Friday. We are ready to protest on Friday. We want those going for Jumat to join us. It is a Bichi Must Go protest”.

The group affirmed to stage the protests in Abuja and other select cities such as Kaduna, Port Harcourt, Lagos and Kano all in a bid to show solidarity for Emefiele and his monetary policies at the CBN.

Sources privy to details of the meeting also disclosed that it was suggested that the protesters would present a picture of support for the President and March to the Ministry of Justice, OSGF and other strategic public offices calling for the removal of the DG DSS, Alhaji Yusuf Bichi.

Furthermore, they agreed to use the hurriedly organised ‘Coalition of National Interest Defenders (CNID)’, a group of self acclaimed activists cutting across tribal and professional groups to carry out the protests.

Sources at the CAC have already confirmed that CNID is unregistered and therefore not a corporate body.

Other groups are also being mobilised to participate in the protests which could lead to a breakdown of law and order. Furthermore, at the meeting, the duo allegedly agreed that Imo Ugochinyere Ikenga, a popular activist cum politician, would be the central coordinator of the protests.

Investigations have revealed that “Ikenga is a close ally of Emefiele who he (Ikenga) had helped to organise similar support protests in the past.”

“Instructively, Emefiele is said to have strong contacts with civil society organisations many of who he paid to organise rallies during his botched presidential aspiration.”

CSO sources confirmed to our correspondents that the groups were heavily mobilised by fronts reportedly working for controversial banker for the international press conference that held on Monday, 19th December.

One of such persons noted that, “Our people were well sorted out. We will show them pepper. We will take the fight to them”.

It was also discovered that Imo Ikenga and Godwin Meliga are politicians seeking election to the Houses of Representatives and Assembly in Imo and Kogi States respectively.

It can be recalled that Abuja was on Monday, 19th December rocked by protests staged by a coalition of groups that accused the DSS of instituting a court case against the CBN Governor over allegations of terrorism financing.

The Coalition held a press conference during which it called for sack of the agency’s Director General.