A claim that the #EndBadGovernance protest billed for August 1 -10 has been circulating on social media, particularly on WhatsApp.

The claim stated that the protest has been shifted from August 1 to October 1, 2024 if the demands made by members of the Good Nigerian Movement was not met.

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Part of the WhatsApp post read:

PROTEST SHIFTED TO OCTOBER 1ST WITH THE FOLLOWING 7 CONDITIONS TO GOVERNMENT
We the Nigerian people under umbrella of GOOD NIGERIAN MOVEMENT hereby wish to announce our collective intention to halt any form of protest within Nigeria and shift it to next 2 months of 1st October if the following conditions are not met by our government.

1. That Nigeria Government Must temporally remove all import duties on food and food items due to the present hunger in the land. Government must provide incentives for farmers in this planting rainy season and secure our forests to protect farmers from terrorists and preserve their crops by storage during harvest.

2. That Federal Government having removed fuel subsidy over a year MUST strictly start now to making crude oil available to our local refineries in naira as promised on 29th July 2024 at the Federal Executive Council meeting Abuja. We cannot allow International Oil Companies IOC and NNPC or anyone to keep us in perpetual importation of refined Petroleum products at high price while we keep exporting our raw crude. Our local refineries...

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