{"id":67690,"date":"2025-06-10T08:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67690"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:30:06","slug":"june-12-protest-organisers-unveil-eagle-square-as-abuja-rally-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/10\/june-12-protest-organisers-unveil-eagle-square-as-abuja-rally-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"June 12 Protest: Organisers Unveil Eagle Square as Abuja Rally Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Take It Back Movement, organisers of the planned June 12 protest, have announced Eagle Square as the convergence point for demonstrators in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Set to begin by 8:00 a.m., the protest coincides with Nigeria\u2019s Democracy Day and is aimed at highlighting issues of economic hardship, insecurity, and the shrinking civic space under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday, National Coordinator Juwon Sanyaolu said the protest would demand accountability and reaffirm citizens&#8217; democratic rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur demands remain the same. June 12 is a symbolic day for democracy, and we are using it to call for accountability and good governance,\u201d Sanyaolu said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the current administration of failing in its constitutional responsibility to ensure the security and welfare of Nigerians, while also stifling free speech and dissent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of speech is under serious threat. Critics and opposition voices are being hunted down. This protest is our way of reclaiming the civic space,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Sanyaolu also issued a stern warning to security agencies, insisting that any form of repression would be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right to peaceful protest is enshrined in the Constitution and affirmed by the Supreme Court. Security agencies must protect, not attack, protesters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Take It Back Movement, organisers of the planned June 12 protest, have announced Eagle Square as the convergence point for demonstrators in Abuja. Set to begin by 8:00 a.m., the protest coincides with Nigeria\u2019s Democracy Day and is aimed at highlighting issues of economic hardship, insecurity, and the shrinking civic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67692,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690\/revisions\/67692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}