UPDATED: Yoruba Nation Protest Hits Akure
Scores of youths under the aegis of Omo Oduduwa United have stormed the streets of Akure captial of Ondo State to agitate for the Yoruba nation.
NEWS DIRECT reports that the protesters gathered at Isinkan roundabout in Akure to begin the Yoruba Nation protest.
The protesters carried placards, banners chanting secession songs and distributing handbills to people along the streets.
Maxwell Adeleye, a spokesman for the group, had previously stated that the event will be held without violence or brigandage.
Adeleye stated that the demonstration would demand the Oduduwa Republic adamantly and loudly.
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) sent personnel to the rally’s location, the Isokan Roundabout.
ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro, a spokesman for the Ondo Police Command, said the police would not allow miscreants to utilize the demonstration to cause mayhem, as they did during the #ENDSARS demonstration.
The state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has already advised all Yoruba nation agitators to keep away from the state.
The people of the state, according to Governor Akeredolu, have chosen to remain in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as it is now.
He claimed that no section of the entire state, known and delimited as Ondo State, would allow any gathering or agitation that may imply, even tangentially, that the people support what he called “unthinking rabble-rousing.”
