BREAKING: Anti-Yoruba Nation Lagos Rally Postponed

The Yoruba Appraisal Forum has postponed its ‘Anti-Secession Agitations’ event scheduled for Friday in Lagos State’s Gani Fawehinmi Park.

The event was postponed, according to the organizers, due to police action and the need to stop the spread of COVID-19.

In a statement issued after meeting with Animashaun on Thursday at the command’s headquarters, Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP) Mr Hakeem Odumosun said that any rally or mass gathering in any part of the state would expose participants and innocent residents to traffic problems, health hazards, and avoidable security infractions.

Chief Adesina Animashaun, the YAF’s national coordinator, said this on Friday.

He said, “I met with the CP on Thursday afternoon and the reasons he gave for us to postpone the really are ideal.

“The CP also asked me to sign an undertaking to call off the rally, walk to forestall gridlock, new wave of COVID-19, among others, which I did.

“As a law-abiding citizen, I realised that the reasons given by the CP are ideal.

“However, our sensitisation about the need for one Nigeria is not something we push under the carpet. The rally will eventually hold at a later date that we will decide.”