The rag-tag band of the Yoruba Nation agitators started their trial within the absence of their chief at an Ibadan court docket on Wednesday.

Thus far, the Ibadan police command have mopped up 29 of the rebels following their makes an attempt to over-run the state secretariat, and plant the Oodua Nation flag there final week.

Of their handcuffs, plenty of them mentioned that they had no remorse storming the state headquarters as a result of their chief informed them they needed to do it.

In keeping with the particular adviser to Oyo Gov Seyi Makinde, the group’s chief, Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, has gone on the lam now. The widow of the late businessman MKO Abiola, by no means got here throughout as somebody who had the intestine for armed struggles. 

However a former militant chief of the Yoruba Nation agitation Sunday Adeyemo confirmed in a video Onitiri-Abiola spearheaded the invasion.

The 29 suspects confronted a seven-count cost on treasonable felony, illegal society, unlawful possession of firearm, going armed and conduct more likely to trigger breach of peace.

Investigative Police Officer Bakare Rasaq mentioned the offenses run opposite to, and it’s punishable underneath Part 516 of the Prison Code, Cap 38, Vol.II, Legal guidelines of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000.