Omoyele Sowore, a former Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress, has joined the ongoing protest in Lagos State.
Many protesters gathered on Tuesday at the Ikeja Underbridge in Lagos as Nigeria marks the 2024 Independence Day.
The human rights activist was seen alongside a crowd of protesters wielding placards, demanding an end to the nation’s economic crisis.
Sowore, who is one of the organisers of the protest had scheduled a nationwide protest on October 1 to further demand a solution to the growing economic crisis plaguing the nation.
The protest is scheduled to hold in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, while the nation marks its 64th Independence Day anniversary.
The protest is tagged ‘National Survival Day.’
The protesters are calling for the reversal of many of the economic reforms implemented by President Bola Tinubu which they say pushed many Nigerians into “multi-dimensional poverty and monumental misery.”
Their demands include the reversals of fuel subsidy removal, electricity tariff hikes and others.
