Former Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has faulted the planned #EndBadGovernance protest against the President Bola Tinubu administration alleging that the organisers of the rally have sinister motives.

Fayose, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, July 29, claimed the planned August hardship protest has political dimensions.

He said Tinubu’s predecessor Muhammadu Buhari was in power for eight years and there was no hunger protest despite the hardship in the country at the time.

Buhari, a former military head of state from Katsina State in North-West Nigeria was Nigeria’s democratically elected President from May 2015 to May 2023. He handed over power to Tinubu, former Lagos governor from the South-West geopolitical zone.

“Hunger didn’t start one day. This hunger started a long time ago. That was why they had a rally at a time and said: ‘Jonathan must go’. (President Goodluck) Jonathan left.

That hunger did not stop. Buhari came. Buhari spent eight years, nobody said anything. I didn’t remember any rally.

There is no government that is 100%.

Nigeria is a very difficult country to govern. We all know that. If a man is to spend four years, give him a mid-term.

The little time cannot be sufficient right now for anybody to say we must bring down the government. Because there must be a motive,” the ex-governor stated.

The Buhari administration witnessed some major protests including the #EndSARS protest against police brutality, demonstrations by university lecturers, and pro-Labour rallies, amongst others.