Some hired protesters rejecting a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Tuesday, stranded at the national secretariat of the party.
It was gathered that the protesters were brought by three Luxurious buses on Tuesday morning to protest against alleged plan by the APC to fly a Muslim-Muslim ticket ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
The presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is yet to submit a substantive running mate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), although a place holder has been submitted.
Some of the said protesters were seen angrily shouting on top of their voices against a chieftain of the party (namewithed) who mobilised them to the headquarters of the ruling party.
While some of the protesters were hiding under various threes around the Buhari House, some others were seen begging security men at ECWA Church near the APC secretariat for shelter.
One of the protesters, a 57-year-old woman who approached our correspondent at the car park in front of the Buhari House lamented how they were left in the rain without any care.
Other young protesters were seen threatening to stage another protest against their primary mission at the APC national headquarters.
The older woman who spoke with newsmen under condition of anonymity said: “They brought us from different places from the outskirts of Abuja. I am from Dei-Dei, some are from Suleija while some from Maraba. We were told that we will get three thousand each after the protest but since we finished nobody is even talking to us and the bus that brought us has left,” She lamented.
Another young man who also narrated his ordeal said: “I was about going to my place of work this morning when our coordinator approached me that one man wanted us to protest at APC national secretariat but since we finished about two hours ago, the coordinator and the man that invited us have disappeared and we are left in the rain.
“Although some people are saying whether they went to withdraw money from bank but leaving us in the rain without communication is a bad treatment and if care is not taken we will stage another protest against our mission here.”
