Activist for Yoruba nation, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said that the planned rally in Lagos would hold despite threats against it by the police.
Igboho who spoke through his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, said the rally which is scheduled to take off from Ojota Park, Lagos on July 3, would go on.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, had said that he has no request from any group to hold a rally in Lagos.
“I’m not aware of anybody planning any rally anywhere in Lagos. Nobody has written to the Command to that effect. So, when we get to the bridge, we’ll cross it,” he said.
An online newspaper, SaharaReporters, quoted Koiki saying that irrespective of the stance of the Lagos police or government, the rally would hold.
Koiki, according to the newspaper, said that the land belongs to the Lagos people and not to the Commissioner of Police, adding that no one has the right to stop the people from carrying out ‘a peaceful rally’.
“This is not #EndSARS neither is it June 12 rally, we are coming for a peaceful rally in Lagos State, no violence will be recorded and that rally will hold.
“We have no business with the police and we are not coming to disrupt the peace of Lagos state. Let them pull whatever strings they can, by the time we get there, we will know what to do. We are simply demanding our own nation, so it is different from whatever rally was held on June 12 or during the #EndSARS protest.
“Tell them that, I, Olayomi Koiki, media aide to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) said we will hold the July 3rd rally in Lagos State. We know what the police do to disperse peaceful protesters but we are not protesting, we are creating awareness. Yoruba Nation now, no retreat, no surrender.”
