Breaking: Police fire tear gas at #BuhariMustGo protesters in Abuja

There was commotion Friday morning in Abuja as #BuhariMustGo protesters hit the streets for an Independence Day protest.

In an attempt to disperse the protesters, the police arrived at the scene of the protest and fired tear gas at them, according to a report by an online news platform, TheCable.

The youths, it reported, came out in their numbers on Friday morning all carrying placards which had the inscriptions #BuhariMustGo.

They also carried a large banner with #RevolutionNow written on it while moving in the streets.

The protesters also burnt tyres in the middle of the road.

The Federal Government had said there would be heightened security in the days leading to the country’s 61st independence anniversary.

It therefore asked residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs not to panic.

Meanwhile, Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, has said the people of Ebonyi will not observe the sit-at-home order announced by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for October 1.

He said the October 1 date was important to Nigeria and to Ebonyi, which was created on October 1, 1996.

In a statement last Saturday, IPOB Spokesman Emma Powerful had said the group would also bring down Nigerian flags in the South-East region.

Powerful said the proscribed group was taking these actions in solidarity with Ambazonia, a secessionist group in Cameroon, whose purported independence anniversary is on October 1.