Policemen in Lagos on Thursday February 28, 2019, disrupted the “Free Lagos” Press conference in Lagos.
The press conference, which was to hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel in Ikeja was being organised by a group known as ‘Orange Movement for a Free Lagos State’ with the theme, “Setting Lagos free from Bourdillon Bondage, #OtogeLagos”
The conveners of the group comprise of former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, Spokesperson of Afenifere Group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, and Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
While some participants had already seated inside the Oranmiyan Hall where the event was to hold, scores of others, who stormed the Airport Hotel gate were stopped by a detachment of armed policemen mobilised to the scene.
The policemen did not allow anybody to come inside the hall.
In the ensuing drama, the policemen fired several shots to disperse the crowd with people running helter-skelter within the premises.
It was not clear while policemen in about 10 vehicles stormed the venue, but sources said the action was to prevent the press conference from holding.
One of the conveners, Comrade Mark Adebayo, said that they would sue the Police for the siege. Agbakoba, Odumakin and Afikuyomi are yet to arrive the venue.