With the disturbance by the lies being spread, i had to write this. Very few people knew when President Jonathan entered Oduduwa hall due to the smartness of those security guys who diverted our attention to the landing helicopters at the sports complex(4 in all), one of which we thought Jonathan would come out from. Meanwhile his convoy had already come in through road 7.With this, people decided to wait till the meeting was over, telling the soldiers that they must see their president.
Meanwhile, there was a peaceful demonstration. However, it was by the Educational Rights Campaign and not the students’ union and it bothered on the below-par educational condition in Nigeria. They only sang and shouted throughout. Nobody threw stones, stick or pure water sachets! ERC was joined by few other students but you can categorically see for yourselves in the pics below that most people including students, and people from town only did everything in their power to see their President.
President Jonathan tried to address us but the noise and rushing was just too much to the extent that some guys fell and the soldiers at one point flareAd up. The S.U president was able to meet with Mr President, chatted for few minutes and gave him a protest letter, a copy of which is below. After this, he waved to us, got into his vehicle which conveyed him to sports complex. Three of the helicopters took off about 15 minutes before that of the President took off. Culled from : Newspunch
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