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Tinubu, others would have protested against NYSC for threatening corper Uguamaye while in opposition: Pat Utomi

Mr Utomi stated, “A state is burning because the judiciary has abandoned the ways of justice.’’

• March 18, 2025
Pat Utomi
Pat Utomi

Political economist, Pat Utomi, has condemned the threat against a National Youth Service Corps member, Ushie Uguamaye, over calling President Bola Tinubu “terrible” and decrying the cost of living in Nigeria.

In a statement on X on Tuesday, Mr Utomi, stated that if this had happened when Mr Tinubu, members of the All Progressives Congress and their supporters, were in the opposition between 1999 and 2015, when the Peoples Democratic Party was in power, they would have shut down the country in a nationwide protest to support her.

“There is fasting all around. Christians and Moslems and perhaps some Dibias and marabouts. But evil persists turbocharged. Young NYSC girls terrorized for just speaking where those harassing her in our time would have hit the streets to demonstrate,” Mr Utomi wrote.

Lambasting the judiciary for delivering injustice regarding the political crisis in Rivers State, capable of leading to anarchy, Mr Utomi also condemned the use of hunger and poverty as weapons by politicians for their selfish and personal gains, suggesting that Nigerian political office holders needed to be medically evaluated.

He stated, “A state is burning because the judiciary has abandoned the ways of justice and those in power care not for the lives of ordinary people. Hunger humbles the increasingly poor, making it cheaper for them to be recruited for rallies.

“Dr David Owen, one time Foreign Secretary in the UK, must have foreseen Nigeria. The psychiatrist politician saw many psychopaths in power and prescribed thorough health checks for politicians.”

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