Yoruba Nation: Sunday Igboho Vows To Hold Lagos Rally, Warns Police Against Disruption

Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, says the the planned Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos state will still hold.

Igboho, who spoke through Olayomi Koiki, his spokesperson, said the rally will be peaceful and smooth, warning the police against formenting trouble and breaching public peace.

In a Facebook broadcast on Friday morning, Koiki said the Nigerian police should be held responsible if anything untoward and dispiriting happens during the Yoruba Nation rally in Lagos State..

Koiki said that the Yoruba Nation Rally would hold in Lagos on Saturday despite a police warning.

“On no account will any actual or rumoured activity, including the planned mega rally, be allowed to lock down the state or hinder the normal daily activities of the good people of Lagos State, the Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, said at a media briefing held in Alausa, Ikeja, on Thursday.

But Igboho’s media aide noted that the rally would proceed with or without his boss, who had reportedly withdrawn himself from the rally.

He said, “I heard that the commissioner of police said no rally will hold, tell them to expect us. We will know who owns Lagos on Saturday between Yoruba people or Sanwo-Olu or police. We will all meet on Saturday during the rally.

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“If everything will be ruined, let it be on Saturday. They have the choice of letting us have our protest peacefully or causing violent. Police should be held responsible for any violence.

“Let us take all our grievances to Ojota at 9 am on Saturday.”

Earlier, the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, insisted that the Yoruba Nation rally will hold in the state as scheduled.

The made this known in a statement signed by its leader, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, and made available to newsmen by his Communications Manager, Mr. Maxwell Adeleye.

“We want to confirm again that the Pro-Yoruba Nation rally scheduled to hold on Saturday, July 3rd, in Lagos will proceed as scheduled” the statement read in part.”

Koiki also alleged that the DSS officials of taking more than they displayed during a parade on Thursday evening in Abuja.

Koiki claimed that the security operatives took millions of naira and jewellery during the raid.

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