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…warns students against governmental manipulation
…urges FG–ASUU dialog wrong 72 hours
By Adeola Badru
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has firmly disassociated itself from a planned protestation reportedly being organised by activistic Omoyele Sowore and his associates, cautioning students nationwide against being deceived oregon utilized by “selfish and politically motivated individuals.”
Speaking astatine a property league connected Thursday astatine the Federal Cooperative College, Ibadan, the NANS President, Olushola Oladoja, described reports linking the relation to the projected Free Nnamdi Kanu protest, slated for October 20, arsenic false, misleading and mischievous.
Oladoja, who was accompanied by the zonal and field leaders, said the briefing was convened to “set the grounds straight” and support the integrity of NANS from being dragged into governmental controversies.
“We privation to authorities categorically and unequivocally that NANS is not, and volition not be, portion of immoderate protestation organised oregon influenced by Omoyele Sowore oregon immoderate different politically motivated radical oregon individual.”
“The full assertion is false, mischievous and designed to resistance the sanction of our noble relation into governmental controversies that bash not align with our mandate arsenic a pupil body,” Oladoja declared.
He maintained that portion NANS remained committed to defending the rights and payment of Nigerian students, it volition not let its level to beryllium hijacked by politicians oregon activists pursuing idiosyncratic oregon partisan interests.
According to him, the relation upheld the principles of the regularisation of law, owed process and peaceful engagement, and truthful would not enactment successful immoderate agitation concerning the ongoing ineligible proceedings involving the person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
“The substance concerning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is simply a ineligible contented earlier a competent tribunal of law. It would truthful beryllium inappropriate, unlawful and irresponsible for NANS to mobilise immoderate protestation connected a substance earlier the judiciary,” helium added.
Oladoja accused Sowore and his allies of utilizing NANS’ sanction to lend credibility to their “politically driven agenda,” stressing that the pupil assemblage would stay focused connected education, younker development, bid and nationalist unity, alternatively than partisan politics.
He appealed to parents and guardians to caution their children and wards against joining immoderate protestation “sponsored by greedy and self-serving politicians.”
“These individuals exploit the vigor and vulnerability of young radical for idiosyncratic gain, lone to wantonness them erstwhile crises erupt,” helium warned, urging the media, the nationalist and information agencies to disregard immoderate assertion that NANS is mobilising for the protest.
Reiterating that determination is nary part wrong the association, Oladoja affirmed that NANS remained “one agreed and morganatic nationalist pupil movement” with a well-defined enactment structure.
“There is nary faction successful NANS, and cipher is consenting to articulation Sowore’s protest. This is the lone morganatic NANS, and this property league is being held simultaneously crossed each our zonal structures,” helium stated.
Turning to the ongoing impasse betwixt the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, pursuing the lecturers’ two-week informing strike, the NANS President disclosed that the relation had carried retired an autarkic reappraisal and recovered lapses connected some sides.
He, therefore, urged some parties to instrumentality to the dialog array wrong 72 hours to forestall further disruption of world activities.
“We person conducted our probe and seen the problem. We truthful telephone connected ASUU and the Federal Government to reconvene wrong 72 hours and resoluteness this dispute. Nigerian students cannot proceed to endure for issues they did not create,” helium said.
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