The National Orientation Agency (NOA) Director General, Lanre Issa-Onilu, yesterday appealed to the people behind the August 1 nationwide protests against bad governance and the severe economic hardship to have a change of mind. Although Issa-Onilu agreed that there is hunger in the country, he disagreed with those planning the protests as a means to solve the problem.
According to him, President Bola Tinubu has what it takes to address the deteriorating economic situation. The former All Progressives Congress (APC) spokesman said: “The proponents of violent protests are not relenting. “They have fixed August 1 to August 10 as the days of rage.
“They are insisting that the house must be burnt down in anger. Like W. B. Yeats wrote in his poem, ‘The Second Coming, the falcon no longer hears the falconer’. “In this case, the champions of violence are not willing to listen to wise counsel. There’s a loss of order and guidance as the forces of chaos and destruction no longer heed the call of reason.”
 Director General, Lanre Issa-Onilu, yesterday appealed to the people behind the August 1 nationwide){kind=link}