The Yoruba Nation’s base, led by Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, was destroyed by the Oyo State Government in Ibadan.
Onitiri-Abiola is the wife of Chief MKO Abiola, who was thought to have won the 1993 presidential election.
BNN remembers that a group of armed men wearing Army uniforms and Yoruba Nation symbols tried to take over the Oyo State Secretariat on Saturday. They wanted to take control of the State House of Assembly by force, but security agents stopped them.
Security expert for the Governor, CP Fatai Owoseni (retired), said the house on Toye Oyesola Street in Ibadan South West has been knocked down.
Twenty-nine people who were arrested for attempting to invade with weapons were taken to court by the police in Ibadan.
In a court case with charge number Mi/520c/2024, the Commissioner of Police accused 29 people of seven different crimes including treason, being in an illegal group, having guns illegally, and causing trouble.
Inspector Bakare Rasaq, a police officer in Ibadan, said the crime goes against the law and can be punished under Section 516 of the Criminal Code. The laws of Oyo State in Nigeria were made in the year 2000.
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