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By Modupe Shodeinde
The campaigner of the #DefendLagos, Alabi Oladimeji, has announced the suspension of its counter protest, planned to hold at the Lekki toll gate on Saturday (today).
Oladimeji made this known on a press conference on his Facebook page. According to him, the suspension was necessitated by the assurances of the federal and state governments that no protest would be allowed to hold.
Recall that, two rival groups, #OccupyLekkiTollGate and #DefendLagos, reportedly planned to hold a protest at the Lekki toll gate on Saturday, for and against the decision of the Lagos State judicial panel to allow the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) reopen the tollgate.
However the initiator of the #DefendLagos campaign, said, “He said, “No protest from #DefendLagos on Saturday (today). We are simultaneously respecting the state and federal governments.
“I am proud to announce that in the meantime, we will be pending this protest due to the law of the Federal and state governments. We are law-abiding and good citizens, definitely, we should not be the ones seen disobeying any law.
“In respect of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. I am now announcing that anyone involved in #DefendLagos initiated by me should with immediate effect pend the protest. We are not going to hold any protest again on Saturday (today).
“If Lagos and FG fail us, we will come out and protest on Monday.”
He explained that though depressing, the plan to protest was never for personal benefits but to ensure that no destruction occurred in Lagos State.
“It is depressing news for me because we have invested personal resources to produce banners, posters among others on this. But this is not an avenue for us to make money like those in the OccupyLagos,” he added.
Oladimeji also urged the governments to arrest anyone that contravened the directives stopping protests in the state.
“If they come out to protest and the government allows that, it means that we can also protest. We trust the governments. The state and FG have banned any protests in Lagos. If they come out and the government did not arrest them, it means that the government has failed us,” he said.
The Federal and Lagos State Government, as well as the police had earlier warned youths who planned to protest at the Lekki tollgate on Saturday (today) to stop and annul the plan.
However ,youths under the aegis of #EndSARS Season 2 and #OccupyLekkiTollgate, vowed to defy the government’s order and protest against the decision of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry allowing the Lekki Concession Company to reopen the Lekki tollgate.
