#EndSARS Protest was targeted at Tinubu

Wilson Ake, a former senator who represented Rivers West senatorial district in the National Assembly, claimed that the 2020 #EndSARS protest was aimed at Tinubu.

Senator Ake who is an All Progressives Congress faction member loyal to Senator Magnus Abe also expressed support for the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s rumored presidential bid in 2023.

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On Saturday, Ake spoke at the inauguration of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Support Group, dubbed BATS Vanguard, Rivers State chapter, at Freedom House, Senator Abe’s campaign secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Ake said that Tinubu is qualified to be Nigeria’s next president. Ake is also the chairman of the steering committee of the BATS Vanguard in the state.

He said he disagreed with those who said Tinubu was too old for the position, and that his contributions to Nigeria’s democracy and the party qualified him for it.

Ake also said the presidency was open to all qualified Nigerians and nobody should pull down another person for them to succeed.

He said, “For us in Rivers State, we are solidly behind the presidency of our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He worked so hard for the APC and he’s a detribalised man who has done so well for our democracy over the years.

“When Tinubu was working so hard for the APC, nobody talked about his age. He has finished working, now they are saying go and sit down let one young person come and take over. Does it work like that?

“I believe Tinubu is going there to make things better for Nigeria and Nigerians. He has the capacity and the ability to fix the economy of the country.”

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“They went so far; started #EndSARS. In Lagos State, they ended up burning Tinubu’s television house and torched his Newspaper house when he was not in government. The target was how do we decimate this man.”

He urged the state’s APC leadership to give Abe the opportunity to run for governor in 2023, claiming that the Rivers South-East, from which Abe hails, had yet to produce a governor since the state’s inception.

Tony Okocha, a former Chief of Staff in the administration of former Governor Rotimi Amaechi, believes Tinubu has the ability to turn around Nigeria’s fortunes in the same way he developed Lagos State while governor.

“Tinubu is the champion of Nigeria’s democracy. He has the capacity to turn around the economy of Nigeria the same way he did in Lagos as governor.”