The assaulted students, members of a group called the Education Right Campaign (ERC), were meeting on Sunday to review their protest during President Jonathan’s visit when the rival group stormed their meeting to instigate a fight.
Some student
activists at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife who staged
protests during President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to their campus last
Friday were last Sunday badly assaulted by a rival group of
machete-wielding students in what one victim described as “a sponsored
attack by pro-Jonathan supporters.” One of the victims of the attack,
David Adeniyi, who sustained machete cuts on the head, was reportedly on
admission in a hospital in critical condition.
The assaulted students, members of a group called the Education Right
Campaign (ERC), were meeting on Sunday to review their protest
during President Jonathan’s visit when the rival group stormed their
meeting to instigate a fight.