The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has fixed Saturday, August 27, 2022, for elections into various leadership positions.
The coordinator, South-West Zone D, Adegboye Emmanuel, disclosed this in a chat in Abuja.
“The elections will hold on Saturday,” Olatunji said.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the soon-to-be outgoing President, Sunday Ashefon, was elected on December 4, 2020 during its national convention at the old parade ground, Abuja.
Asefon, a civil servant with the Ekiti State Government, got 155 votes to defeat his closest rival, Olushola Oladoja, who scored 100 votes.
The 45-year-old, reported to be a student of Ekiti State University, replaced Bamidele Akpan.
Despite the fact that the tenure of elective positions in the association was meant to last for one year, the elections were not conducted.
NANS is the national body of Nigerian students studying in Nigerian tertiary institutions and diaspora.
The union brings together Nigerian students both within Nigeria and across the diaspora.
NANS was founded in 1980 to replace the banned NUNS and itself theoretically banned as a result of the May 1986 riots, which called for dismissals of government, university, and police officials. Its call was supported by the NLC.
NUNS was founded in 1956, following structural changes in the West African Students’ Union. It brought together student councils in Ife, Zaria, and Nsukka.
In April 1978, Nigerian students were faced with the imposition of increased fees, and NUNS participated in a series of Campus protests across the whole of Nigeria known as the Ali Must Go protests.
The government responded by sending in the army and police, leading to the death or serious wounding of over twenty students.
Three universities were closed and NUNS was banned. Several university staff and students were dismissed.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that sometime in June last year, NUNs elected Comrade Abdulmajeed Oyeniyi as its National President.
This came a few months after a faction in the association announced Sunday Asefon as its President amid chaos and violence that characterized its convention at the old parade ground, Abuja.
The election was the last phase of the national convention held between 24th and 27th June 2021.