Tinubu’s daughter urges market sellers to prevent nationwide protests

Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, President Bola Tinubu’s daughter and Iyaloja General of Lagos, has urged Lagos sellers to prevent their children from participating in the upcoming nationwide protests in August.

In a clip shared on X on Sunday, Tinubu-Ojo addressed sellers in a Lagos marketplace, emphasizing that protests are not the solution to the country’s issues.

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“Let us go and tell our children and families that there’s no such thing as protests. They are simply plans to ruin the country,” Tinubu-Ojo said in Yorùbá.

“Just look back at the protests that happened in the past. Look at how the protesters went to burn down infrastructure the government built. You can see that this is all infighting and we are the ones taking ourselves backwards.

“Don’t allow your children to bear the consequences of these demonstrations that some political parties are funding. Please, let’s talk to ourselves and our children. There is nothing like protest in Lagos State because the government of Lagos is making us proud.

“Those at the federal government just got there. Before you can say that one government has done badly, let them spend three years.”

This is not the first time Tinubu-Ojo has called for Nigerians to remain calm in the face of harsh economic realities.

In February, Tinubu-Ojo told journalists that there was a global economic downturn and Nigerians had to be patient with her father’s leadership.

She is not the only child of the president who has asked Nigerians to be patient.

Seyi Tinubu, Tinubu’s son, shared some of the president’s words in an Instagram post in February, asking Nigerians to endure economic hardship.

The president’s son made the Instagram post at a time when pockets of protests appeared in Oyo, Kano, Ogun, Sokoto, and Niger states. Petrol prices had soared as high as N590 per litre and the labor union was pressuring the federal government to prevent another imminent fuel price hike.

Many young Nigerians are set to take to the streets from August 1 for a protest the government has tried to prevent for weeks.

The protesters are calling for immediate remedies to inflation and the high cost of living nationwide, among other demands.