Students Defy Warning, Protest Makinde's Ibadan Polytechnic Renaming

 

The students of Omololu Olunloyo Polytechnic are currently protesting at the main gate of the institution, located on Sango/Eleyele Road in Ibadan, Oyo State.

PUNCH Online had reported that the State Governor, Seyi Makinde, had renamed The Polytechnic, Ibadan, in honour of the late former governor of the state, Omololu Olunloyo, who died at the age of 89.

The students are protesting in defiant to the earlier warning by the institution’s management that the students should shelve their planned protest.

Protesting students armed with placards bearing various inscriptions came out to express their grievances, calling on the governor to rescind his earlier decision.

The action has paralyzed the academic and other activities in the institution are now put on hold, while the Sango en route Eleyele axis is temporarily blocked.