The chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Bode George, has charged Yoruba Nation agitators of treason after they broke into the Oyo State Secretariat.

New Telegraph had earlier reported that the home of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Agodi Secretariat in Ibadan was attacked over the weekend by some Yoruba nation agitators.

The armed and camouflaged demonstrators declared in a widely shared video clip that Nigeria had given rise to a so-called “Democratic Republic of the Yoruba.”

The Nigerian Army retaliated, stating that the demonstrators had fired at soldiers assigned to maintain law and order.

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George reacted, lamenting the invasion and emphasising that the agitators were unable to take up arms against their government.

Featuring on Arise News Programme, Morning Show, George noted: “You don’t just go and take up arms against your government, it’s treason. That they called Amotekun and the police is something; if it were people from my old profession, they would have seen them as enemies and fired at them.

“I was completely very angry because that is not the way you talk to your government. What could have driven them into that? My conclusion is that they might not be educated. You don’t take up arms against your nation.

“It’s unimaginable; you brought guns and charms; were they dreaming? It’s unacceptable, it’s the highest breaking of the law of the land. You have your freedom of speech which is the most sensible way to approach this problem. The problem is that this thing never leaked to the intelligence of this nation.

“Agitators carried their weapons in military uniforms, and nobody stopped them on the road; you now see the urgent need for state police because they could not have been meeting somewhere if we are well organized like the state police.”