Vehicular movements were disrupted for some hours in parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday, as scores of supporters of the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, trooped to the streets to demand for the unconditional release of Igboho’s aides who were arrested by the officials of the Department of State Security Services within seven days.
The demonstrators, who moved from Soka area of the city, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to Challenge, Mobil, Ring Road, Dugbe and Mokola, among others, also demanded that the authorities should rescind the decision to arrest Sunday Igboho so as to avert crisis in the South-West.
Among the protesters were family members of the arrested aides of Sunday Igboho, his friends, associates, loyalists, as well as some of the supporters of the Yoruba self determination.
The placards bearing demonstrators, hoisting the Yoruba Nation flag on a motorcycle, sang protest songs against the continued detention of those in the DSS custody in Abuja while also condemning the move by the Federal Government to suppress their agitation.
The protesters urged the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, and other leading Yoruba monarchs to back what they described as the genuine call for secession.
It would be recalled that some people were arrested at the Soka, Ibadan residence of Sunday Igboho with, at least, two of his aides killed last week Thursday during the raid by the DSS officials.
The DSS had confirmed the arrest of the 13 persons. However, the family members of those arrested have described the arrest of their brothers as illegal.
The protesters, who donned black attires as a mark of solidarity, disclosed that the protest was being held simultaneously in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
The protest is billed to continue
in Ibadan and other South-West states on Thursday.
