The Youth Rights Campaign (YRC) has called on Nigerians to join a nationwide protest on June 12, 2025, in what the group describes as a public resistance to “two years of hunger, hardship, and rising insecurity” under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
The call was made in a statement released on Monday by YRC’s National Secretary, Francis Nwapa, urging citizens across the country to “organize, mobilize, and resist this government of tyranny.”
The date chosen, June 12, holds symbolic importance as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, commemorating the annulled 1993 presidential election, which is widely seen as the fairest in the country’s history. The YRC plans to use the day to highlight what they see as the Tinubu administration’s failures and to rally citizens to demand change.
“We demand an end to insecurity. We demand an end to all neoliberal policies of the Tinubu regime. We demand an end to hunger and starvation,” Nwapa declared.
The group accused the government of implementing harsh economic reforms without protecting the poor. According to them, policies such as the removal of fuel subsidies, currency devaluation, and unregulated market prices have increased the suffering of ordinary Nigerians.
Nwapa particularly criticized the worsening insecurity, pointing to continued killings of both civilians and security personnel. “End the slaughter
