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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has denied engagement successful a purported “#FreeNnamdiKanu Protest” circulated connected societal media.
In a property connection yesterday, NANS President Comrade Olushola Oladoja dismissed the study arsenic a deliberate effort to resistance the pupil body’s sanction into governmental controversies unrelated to its mandate.
He says, “The full assertion is false, mischievous, and designed to resistance the sanction of our noble Association into governmental controversies that bash not align with our mandate arsenic a pupil body.”
The NANS person clarified that the Association had nary volition of organising oregon participating successful immoderate protestation linked to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained person of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), oregon successful immoderate agitation sponsored by individuals specified arsenic Omoyele Sowore.
“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,” Oladoja said.
He stressed that NANS, arsenic the umbrella assemblage representing each Nigerian students astatine location and abroad, powerfully believes successful the regularisation of law, owed process, and peaceful engagement.
“We recognize that the substance concerning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is presently a ineligible contented earlier a competent tribunal of law. It would truthful beryllium inappropriate, unlawful, and irresponsible for NANS to instrumentality a partisan presumption oregon mobilise immoderate signifier of protestation connected a substance earlier the judiciary.”
Oladoja accused Sowore and his associates of trying to exploit NANS’ sanction for idiosyncratic and governmental gains. “Whatever Mr Sowore and his radical are readying oregon doing is for their ain governmental involvement and has thing to bash with NANS. We counsel him and his co-travellers to halt utilizing the sanction of NANS to springiness credibility to their politically driven agenda.”
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