PROTESTING students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday, attacked the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele.
It was gathered that the angry students attacked the convoy of Salako-Oyedele, who was on her way to the 35 Artillery Brigade Alabama, Abeokuta, to represent the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, at the reception marking the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebrations.
This newspaper also gathered that the students damaged some of the security vehicles of the deputy governor while some of her security operatives, were also hurt in the process of maintaining law and order.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, confirmed the attack in a statement in Abeokuta.
According to Akinmade, the irate students, who were armed with sticks and other dangerous projectiles attacked the deputy governor’s convoy despite all efforts of security operatives to placate them.
“Immediately the students realised it was the deputy governor, they became even more restive and rushed to attack her convoy with intention of demobilising it, despite her security operatives as well as other police officers persuasion to stay calm and allow the convoy pass,” Akinmade said.
He added that the deputy governor was forced to make an immediate detour to her lodge for the protesting students to pass peacefully before she left for the function she was slated to attend.
Akinmade noted that the students blocked the road, obstructing vehicular movement.
When contacted, the NANS Ogun JCC Chairman, Adeyanju Francis, denied the allegation saying the policemen attached to the convoy shot at the students first.
Francis said, “None of our students attacked her, we were coming peacefully. We converged this morning at MAPOLY to express our grievances to the Ogun State government and on our way going to Oke Mosan we were accosted by the entourage of the deputy governor.
“At first we thought she was sent from Oke-Mosan to engage the student constituency not until the policemen attached to her started shooting at Nigeria students.
“We even took three out of the bullets they shot at us at OPIC on our way to Iwe Iroyin.”
Francis maintained that none of the students were armed with stick, saying, “It is a blatant lie against Nigerian students; even her policemen injured some of our students. It was after that that the students started chasing their vehicles.”