Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo Igboho popularly known as Sunday Igboho said contrary to reports that he has suspended the Saturday July 3rd rally in Lagos, the rally would go on as planned.
His insistence on going ahead with the rally is despite warning by the state police command that it would not entertain any rally.
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Igboho was declared wanted on Tuesday by the Department of State Security (DSS) which raided his Soka residence in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday killing two of his allies and arresting 13 others.
Igboho through his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki on Friday said the rally would go ahead as planned at Ojota, Lagos by 9am.
In a live broadcast this morning, Koiki said, “The rally goes ahead on Saturday. There is no change with the rally. The rally goes on as planned.
“I can still confirm officially that the Lagos rally in as much as whatever news or rumours you’ve been listening to from different outlets, will go as planned
“The 3rd of July Mega rally will go as planned. All arrangements for the rally have been planned and nothing has changed.
“I have spoken to the organisers, nothing has changed so far. 3rd of July from exactly 9:00am in the morning. The whole arrangement and planning is going on.”
Koiki also posted the details of the rally his Facebook Page, Koiki Media, saying there was no going back on the rally.
“Come out in numbers to support the freedom of Yoruba Self Determination. 1999 constitution is a fraud! 1914 Amalgamation has expired. Yoruba Nation No going back,” he posted on his Facebook page.
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Hakeem Odumosu during a press conference on Wednesday warned against any rally under any pretext in the state.
“The Lagos State Police Command hereby warns that no rally will be allowed, under whatever guise, in any part of the state,” Odumosu said, saying it cannot afford the kind of security lapses experienced during the #EndSARS protest in October, last year.
He said, “The Command therefore warns the organizers and their followers against staging the planned rally and stay clear of streets of Lagos for the interest of the State and the general public as anyone caught participating or facilitating the rally will be dealt with within the ambits of the law.
“Lagos State cannot afford to experience any security lapses, breakdown of law and order and threat to public peace at the moment, considering the negative effects and reoccurring agonies of the October, 2020 violent #Endsars crisis that led to massive destruction of public and private facilities while some Police personnel paid the supreme price.
“This is in addition to many Police Stations, barracks, officers’personal properties that were set ablaze during this period. The Command is still going through those harrowing experiences. The Command will not be cajoled by the so- called organizers that the rally will be peaceful. That was the same slogan adopted by the organizers of the #Endsars protest that was eventually snowballed into crises with attendant massive destruction of lives and properties. The Police will not submit to their antics.”
He reiterated that any rally or sit-at-home that would lock down the state would not be tolerated.
