More people join strike in Abuja•Labour targets 100,000 people today •Insists on N65 per litre

More people joined in the protest against the fuel subsidy removal in Abuja, on Tuesday, even as labour declared that it was targeting 100,000 people as the protest entered the third day today.
The procession commenced at Berger Junction Roundabout, where the protesters who had tripled that of Monday, defied all attempts to block their way and prevent the procession from taking place.
The protesters, led by the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar and that of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Peter Esele,  went through Wuse Market to Aminu Kano Crescent and terminated at the AP Plaza/Amingo Junction, Wuse 11, where the leaders addressed the crowd.
Comrades Omar and Esele commended Abuja residents and called on them to come out en masse today, adding that their target was to have over 100,000 people participating in the protest from today.
They insisted that there was no going back except the government reversed the pump price to N65 per litre, declaring that there would be no retreat, no surrender.
Omar said: “Who owns the land?  Comrades, we own the land. They used the police to barricade the road but we passed through them and that is to show that the people are superior, we will maintain the superiority.
“To succeed, you have to follow instructions and procedures. The crowd we see today is a fulfilment of the earlier promise made. Are you promising you are going to come out with more people tomorrow?”
As the crowd chorused yes, he urged them to come out en masse so that government would know that power belongs to the people.
Omar stressed that the aim of the protest was to make the government to reverse the price of fuel to N65.
“The aim of the protests is for government to reverse this very obnoxious policy of fuel subsidy removal and petroleum price increase that has been imposed on Nigerians,”he declared.
Among the protesters are members of the House of Representatives, medical doctors, lawyers, students, academics, okada riders, market men and women as well as artisans.
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