Yoruba Council of Youths Plan Nationwide Protest Over Rising Fuel Prices, Scarcity

Some Nigerian youths under the auspices of Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW) has threatened to embark on a nationwide protest over the steady increase of prices of petroleum products.The group also asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the General Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari for gross incompetence.

This was made known on Friday in a statement by the Council President, Oladotun Hassan, in Abuja, noting that the NNPC GMD had destroyed the confidence and goodwill he had among Nigerians.

According to Hassan, Kyari’s incompetence has brought about untold hardship on the citizens.

The statement reads in part: "We have no choice than to rise in defence of Nigerian masses, for it is unarguable that the NNPC management under Mele Kyari is incompetent, weak and incapacitated, hence our clarion call for his immediate replacement with a better competent hand.

"Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide shall be marching in protest to press home our demands should the needful not be done in a week’s time from date of this press release (On or before 17th November, 2022).

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