SOME PROTESTING STUDENTS of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State on Wednesday attacked the convoy of the Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele.
The angry students reportedly attacked Salako-Oyedele’s convoy on her way to the 35 Artillery Brigade Alabama in Abeokuta to represent the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, for the 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebrations event.
The Explainer gathered that the students had destroyed several of the deputy governor’s security cars and injured some of her security personnel as they were upholding law and order.
In a statement released in Abeokuta, Kayode Akinmade, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, acknowledged the attack.
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Despite every attempt by security personnel to calm them, the angry students, armed with sticks and other deadly projectiles, attacked the deputy governor’s convoy, according to Akinmade.
“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 went on to say that before leaving for the event she was supposed to attend, the deputy governor had to immediately make a diversion to her lodge so that the students who were protesting could pass without incident.
According to Akinmade, the students obstructed traffic by blocking the road.