Engr. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, the Deputy Governor of Ogun State, evaded being attacked on Wednesday afternoon by some disgruntled students at Moshood Abiola Polytechnic in Abeokuta, Mapoly.
Recall that Polytechnic students demonstrated on Monday against the school management’s failure to deliver their HND final year results, which prevented them from being mobilised for the one-year mandatory NYSC duty and increased school fees.
The Polytechnic management shut the school indefinitely to stave off property destruction.
Dissatisfied with the situation, the irate students protested on the streets of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State.
FMTBLOG gathered that on Wednesday, the Deputy Governor’s convoy was on its way to represent the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, at the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebrations at 35 Artillery Brigade Alabama in Abeokuta, Ogun State. However, the convoy was stopped by protesting students.
The enraged MAPOLY students marched through Abeokuta’s Oke-Ilewo axis, holding placards and shouting Aluta choruses.
When they saw the Deputy Governor’s convoy, they became agitated and rushed to attack it to demobilise it, despite her security personnel and other police officials’ persuasion to remain calm and allow the convoy to pass.
The situation prompted the Deputy Governor’s Convoy to make a sudden diversion to her lodge in front of the popular Iwe-Irohin House, allowing the protesting students to pass calmly before leaving for the scheduled function.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Government, in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, stated that during the melee, there was obstruction of vehicular movement, and some of the Deputy Governor’s security vehicle was damaged, as well as her security operatives, who were injured in the process of maintaining law and order, contrary to press reports.
Speaking to journalists, Comrade Adeyanju Francis, Ogun State Chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS), accused the convoy led by the state’s Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, of shooting at them during a demonstration.
According to the demonstrators, while marching to the NNPC area in Abeokuta, they came across the Deputy Governor’s motorcade at the OPIC roundabout.
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The students attempted to approach the deputy governor to express their concerns but were met with sporadic gunshots from her security detail.
