OAU has denied reports that students were arrested in Oduduwa Hall on campus, for protesting against the exuberance of Nyesom Wike on Thursday 5th June 2025.
Oladepo Joshua and Ejike Kelechi, raised placards inside the hall calling out the minister to “compensate those that you demolished their houses.”
The Minister under Tinubu presidency has taken an iron hand approach in Abuja, demolishing houses and revoking licenses, a move the students condemned.
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State denied claims that two students were arrested for protesting the presence of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on the campus.
The university’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, said that while everyone had the right to protest, the minority should not disrupt what the majority was enjoying.
“Everybody has a right to protest, and the minority, microscopic minorities, should not disrupt what the overwhelming majority allows.
“So, they were not arrested; they were only escorted out of the Oduduwa Hall. We didn’t want the situation to escalate, because some of their colleagues were the ones who accosted them.
“You know, when about 20 students descended on two students, something could happen. So, the security operatives there just apprehended the two students, took them out of the hall,” the PRO said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
Olarewaju, who anchored the programme, added that all he knew was that they (security officials) “rescued them (the students) from being beaten by their colleagues.”
“I mean, how can just two students, only two students, decide to disrupt what other students said they like? So, so that their colleagues will not beat them, or injure them, or do anything untoward, that was why our security personnel just took them out of the hall,” he added.
