Presidency Describes #RevolutionNow Protests As Child's Play

Reacting to the #RevolutionNow protests that took place in various parts of the country on Wednesday, the Presidency has described it as "child's play."

Speaking on the Sunrise Daily programme on Channels Television on Thursday, the president's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said that the protest held on Wednesday was "just a sprinkle of people trying to be funny," and that it was not something to "worry about."

He said, “Well, was it really a protest? By my estimation, it just seemed like a child’s play because protests by their very nature are spontaneous things, mass things. These are just a sprinkle of people trying to be funny. As far as I am concerned, it is nothing to worry about.

“A revolution is always a mass thing, not a sprinkle of young boys and girls you saw yesterday in different parts of the country. I think it was just a funny thing to call it a revolution protest.”

When Adesina was asked if the downplaying of the ordeal of young Nigerians was right, he said, “In a country of 200 million people and if you see a sprinkle of people saying they are doing a revolution, it was a child’s play."

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Responding to the question if the size of the protesters determines the gravity of the matter at hand, he said, “Well, it will always matter because if you said it was a revolution, revolutions by definition are quite well known.

“Revolution is something that turns the normal order. What happened yesterday, would you call it a revolution? It was just an irritation, just an irritation and some people want to cause irritation in the country and what I will say is when things boil over, they boil over because you continue to heat them.

“When you see pockets of heating up in the country, eventually they culminate in a boiling over. So, Nigerians need to know that the country we get is what we use our hands to build.”