NANS President Chinonso Obasi with NANS logo
"When men hold the same ideas in their minds; nothing can isolate them, not the walls of prisons nor the sods of cemetery, for a single idea and common goal sustain them". -Fidel Castro.
The Newly elected National Executive Council of the most virile youths/students Association in Nigeria congratulate the Senate of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for the successful hosting of the 72nd Senate Session of NANS held at Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki between 26th – 28th August 2016.
The NEC is delighted with the unprecedented commitment of the Senate to organize a Senate meeting just a month after the elections that ushered-in this new administration at the Pantami Stadium in Gombe State on Tuesday 19th July, 2016.
The NEC is pleased with the resolutions of the Senate session which centers on important issues affecting the state of our campuses, police brutality vis-à-vis senseless religious killings, herdsmen attacks, and the spiraling cascading economy due to recession that Nigerians are currently battling as a nation once reputed to be the fasted growing economy in Africa.
Prominent amongst the resolutions is the bye-eletion conducted by the Senate to elect new Executive members that were not bestowed with as Executive members at the Gombe Convention. As we congratulates the new elected comrades with a caveat to see their emergence into NANS NEC as a challenge to defend the right of students and advocate for the betterment of the education sector at all cost.
The names of the newly elected NANS NEC are:
1. Olamide Odumosu – Vice President, National Affairs, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State.
2. Amtai Ali – Vice President, Special Duties, FCET, Gombe State.
3. Afolabi Aguda – Vice President, External Affairs, Osun State College of Technology, Esa-oke, Osun State.
4. Sagas Awunansere Mbeh – Financial Secretary, University of Calabar, UNICAL, Cross Rivers State.
5. Adokiye Jonah – National Treasurer, The Polytechnic, Port Harcourt, River State.
6. Abdulahi Akanji – Director of Travels and Exchange, DTE, Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Kwara State.
7. Adebayo Nurudeen – Ex-officio 1. Kadpoly, Kaduna State.
The new NANS leadership is not unaware of whimsical efforts and caprices of the APC led federal government to factionalise and balkanise all organized structures in the country in order to suppress a collective voice of the masses across board so as to repress the unequivocal mindset of concerned Nigerians. It's a known fact that the government has succeeded in factionalising the NLC, CAN, NYCN and are surreptitiously conniving through the office of the Senior Assistant on Youths and Students to the President to sponsor and organize an illegal convention of NANS in Abuja this weekend that is airmed at producing a fractional arm of NANS that will only dance to the tunes of the government to suppress the voice of Nigerian Students and serve as a deterrent arm of the government in her bids to alternate the mindset of Nigerian Students on national issues that affects the masses in general.
We therefore use this medium to inform and warn with a strong statement for our territory schools administrators not to mobilise, sponsor or support their Student's Union Governments to any scheduled Kangaroo and illegal Convention of APC/NANS scheduled for Abuja this weekend.
The newly elected leadership of NANS will not succumb to any form of treat, intimidation, blackmail, all form of oppressive tendencies of the power that be to subjugate and repress our association in our onerous bid to defend the mandate bestowed on us by legitimate Nigerian Students delegates while we will continue to support the Anti-Corruption fight of the government irrespective of government's plans to silence our resolute agenda.
Aluta Continua; Victoria Ascerta!
Chinonso Obasi GCONS
NANS President
