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Protesters waving Russian flag spotted in Abuja
A trend of protesters waving foreign flags during the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest has continued.
Newsmen sighted protesters holding Russian flags near the Nyanya bridge, a suburb in Abuja, on Monday.
The trend was first observed in Kano, northern Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, on the first day of the protest.
On Saturday, the protesters defied a 24-hour curfew and marched through the city, urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene in Nigeria.
Some of the youths told TheCable that they were leaning towards Russia because of a lack of trust in President Bola Tinubu’s motives.
“We are raising the Russian flag because we believe Tinubu is playing his imperial masters’ scripts — the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the United States of America,” Auwalu Idi, a protester, told TheCable.
On Sunday, more Russian flag carriers were also spotted in Kano.





