BREAKING: POLITICS: Ondo APC Suspends Political Campaigns As Protests Continue Over Cash, Fuel Scarcity
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February 8, 2023
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State has suspended its campaigns for the general elections amid protests over the effects of the implementation of the naira re-design policy and fuel scarcity.
A youth group and students carried out protests in Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday.
A similar protest on Tuesday had grounded activities in Ore, disrupting traffic flow along the busy Benin-Ore-Lagos road.
The youth group, Active Citizens of Nigeria, barricaded the Akure/Ilesha road and vented their frustrations on motorists.
Waving placards with different messages, the youth said they could no longer bear the hardship caused by the scarcity of cash and fuel.
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), activists and artisans were also part of the protest.
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Amidst the protests, the APC said it was suspending its campaign rallies in the state
in solidarity with the people of the state.
The state chairperson of the party, Ade Adetimehin, said the APC empathised with residents of the state over the current financial and fuel crisis in the country.
“The party has therefore directed party chairmen, and directors-general at all levels, within the chapter, to suspend rallies, in sympathy with our people”, Mr Adetimehin said in a statement on Wednesday.
He said Nigeria was experiencing an unusual cost of petrol and shortage of cash, a few weeks from “an all-important general elections.”
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