In what appears to be Nigeria’s most dramatic “return on investment” complaint yet, a man on Thursday stormed the All Progressives Congress (APC) national secretariat in Abuja with a message as blunt as it was unsettling: reward me or kill me. The protest, captured in a now-viral video, shows the visibly distressed man holding a placard and demanding recognition for what he described as his personal sacrifices during the party’s 2023 campaign. According to him, loyalty was not just emotional, it was financial, physical, and, ultimately, total. In a country where political support often comes with expectations, some spoken, many implied the man’s outcry reads like a tragic audit of misplaced trust. His claim that he sold his house to fund campaign efforts has not been independently verified, but the symbolism is hard to ignore: a citizen liquidating stability in exchange for promised political dividends. Observers at the scene watched as the protester oscillated between anger and ...
The opposition in Turkey called for a mass demonstration to protest the jailing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival last week, as well as for a boycott of companies said to support the president.
The arrest has set off nightly demonstrations that have drawn hundreds of thousands of antigovernment protesters to the streets of Istanbul and other cities, prompting a government crackdown. More than 1,300 people have been arrested in recent days in connection with the demonstrations, the Interior Ministry said, including 11 journalists.
“There’s a lot of anger about what people feel is a shift toward autocracy,” Ben Hubbard, our Istanbul bureau chief, said.
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