OAU Students Spark Bloody Clash After Jonathan’s Visit

The visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Obafemi Awolowo University on November, 28, Friday, has caused a bloody fight between the students that left no fewer than 6 persons seriously injured.

OAU students protested against President Jonathan, while many others greeted him

According to Premium Times, a fight broke out between the members of the Students Union Government’s (SUG) leadership, who support the president, and other students who organized a humiliating anti-government protest during President Jonathan’s visit to the institution.
The reason of the violence is yet to be discovered, but sources at the OAU campus offered two contradictory reasons for the clatter.



For some who observed the quarrel, it was simply a power struggle between the Students’ Union President, Ibikunle Isaac, and his deputy, Olufunmi Oladejo, while others said it was a cult attack.
Six students sustained serious wounds after a cult group, supposedly supporting the student leadership, attacked a gathering of other students, the SUG Congress, the legislative arm of the student body, said.

Injured OAU students

“They accused the gathering of embarrassing the president in his last visit to the school,” the Congress said in an open letter.
Meanwhile, the institution’s Chief Security Officer, Mr. Paul Ogidi, said there was no cult attack at OAU.
“It is true that our students fought. There was no cults attack on our campus. We did not witness any attack but a fight among our students,” he said.
This was debunked by the ‎Vice-President of the Students Union, Funmi Oladejo, who insisted that what happened on the campus could be likened to 1999 cult attacks that claimed the lives of many students.

As to the injured, the congress said: “Two of the attacked Students are still receiving treatments. Sammy being slashed near the forehead, receiving treatment at the Health Centre OAU, another called David (davoo), after being rejected at the Health Centre was rushed down to the Seventh Day Adventist hospital where he still lay, up till the time of writing this report.”
The student congress added some of the attackers were arrested after students mobilized, and investigations proved the attack was launched as reprisal for the treatment of President Jonathan on Friday.


President Jonathan was at the school with Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, for the Yoruba Unity Summit, organized by the Committee for Yoruba Unity, where he was also endorsed for the re-election in 2015.

But the placard-wielding students of the OAU who had gathered at the Oduduwa Hall, place of the conference to protest what they named “rot in the educational sector” booed and stoned President Jonathan while entering the presidential chopper few minutes after the conference.