The office of the Ogun State Deputy Governor, Engr. Noimot Salako-Oyedele this Wednesday, 15th January 2025, escaped an attack by the representatives of student bodies during a protest in Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.

According to a release signed by Special Adviser to the Governor on Information and Strategy, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, the Deputy Governor’s convoy was on its way to 35 Artillery Brigade Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State to represent the State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, at the reception marking the year 2025 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration, when her convoy met the protesting students.

The irate protesting MAPOLY students, were armed with sticks and other dangerous projectiles, all efforts to allow the convoy pass proved abortive as immediately the students realised it was the Deputy Governor, they became even more restive and rushed to attack her convoy with the aim of demobilising it, despite her security operatives as well as other police officers on ground persuasion to stay calm and allow the convoy pass.

This informed her convoys decision to make an immediate detour to her lodge for the protesting students to pass peacefully, before she left for the function she was slated to attend.

Noteworthy is that there was obstruction of vehicular movement, while some of her security vehicles were damaged and her security operatives, also hurt in the process of maintaining law and order contrary to the news making rounds in the press.