The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Joint Campus Committee (JCC) Ogun State chapter and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOS) have disassociated themselves from an alleged petition and protest held last week at the All Progressives Congress Secretariat in Abuja by “sponsored students” against the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun.
The students condemned the activities of some political leaders in Ogun, in a statement jointly signed by Comrade Damilola Kehinde, Chairman, NANS JCC Ogun, and Comrade Ogunrombi Oluwagbemileke, President, National Association of Ogun State Students, aimed at unnecessarily heating up the political atmosphere in the state.
They expressed their disappointment that persons who are meant to be elder statesmen in the state were involved for funding smear operations against the current governor.
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“We wish to use this medium to condemn the activities of some of our political leaders in the state aimed at unnecessarily heating up the political atmosphere in our dear state by sponsoring unwarranted and frivolous petitions against His Excellency Governor Dapo Abiodun, the Executive Governor of Ogun State, through their faceless errand boys christened Coalition of Ogun State,” the statement read.
“It’s quite distressing that those who are supposed to be the state’s senior gentlemen are funding smear operations against the current governor.
“This unjustified sponsored media engagement intended at His Excellency, Governor Dapo Abiodun is a high-level display of irresponsibility on the part of the sponsors.”
“Though these leaders attempted to recruit the leadership of all youth and student organisations in the state to join them in this ungodly venture through their representatives and surrogates, when this failed, they now resorted to mobilising Almajiris to stage protests against His Excellency, Governor Dapo Abiodun in the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja all in the bid to achieve their selfish end,”
“As the legitimate and recognised students body in Ogun State, the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the Joint Campus Committee (JCC) Ogun axis, and the National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOS) will resist any attempt or calculated attempt by any political leader, no matter how powerful, to use our platforms to aid any political tension in Ogun State.”
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“May we take this opportunity to call on these leaders to stop fanning the flames of discord and inciting crisis within the state’s youth and student community by calling their errand boys to order, because we will no longer fold our arms and watch any faceless or self-proclaimed group misrepresent us as students and young people in Ogun State.”
“We ask these figures to join our affable governor in his efforts to make our state the epicentre of Nigeria’s industrial revolution and socioeconomic growth,” the students wrote.
