The Nigerian Youth Solidarity Assembly called on President Bola Tinubu to dismiss NAFDAC Director-General Mojisola Adeyeye on Tuesday, accusing the agency of “arbitrary and unlawful” enforcement of the ban on sachet alcohol and 200ml PET bottles. Secretary-General Comrade Okwute Hilary Akor told journalists in Abuja that the crackdown ignores a House of Representatives resolution urging NAFDAC to pause enforcement pending stakeholder consultation, a claim NYSA has repeated at press conferences for months.
The demand is not new, and that is the story. NYSA is the fourth group since February to call for Adeyeye’s removal over the identical policy, following the Rebirth Nigeria Movement, the IPSAW press conference on June 17, and Young Nigeria Women in Leadership roughly two weeks after that. Each group cites the same House resolution, the same suspended directive, and the same investment figures. NAFDAC has not moved.
Labour has run a parallel track with less patience for press conferences. FOBTOB members stormed NAFDAC’s Lagos office for the fifth time in 2026 back in February, demanding sealed factories reopen and warning that 5.5 million jobs across the value chain sit exposed. The union’s placards, not its statements, carried the sharper message: production lines shut, not just policy debated.
None of the pressure has changed enforcement on the ground. Sachet products remain visible at Katampe market and similar informal outlets, openly sold at higher prices than before the ban took effect, while Adeyeye continues to frame the restriction as protective rather than punitive. That gap between enforcement on paper and commerce on the street is where NAFDAC’s credibility problem now sits, distinct from the removal campaign itself.
NYSA says it has formally referred its complaint to the Senate. The more consequential venue remains the Federal High Court, where SERAP’s suit seeking a permanent bar on any government-ordered enforcement pause is still awaiting a hearing date, the ruling most likely to settle whether NAFDAC or its critics get the final word.
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