The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has declared that it would frustrate all political activities leading to the selection of party candidates ahead of the 2023 General Elections if the Federal Government does not resolve its differences with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
NANS president, Sunday Asefon, in a statement on Workers Day advised the two major political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to forget any political gathering as “We will frustrate all the activities leading to the selection of party candidates if we remain on strike.”
“We have given mediators time to prevail on the Federal Government to resolve issues with ASUU and ensure students resume to their different campuses, but it seems all mediations have failed or failing as the case may be.”
Asefon also accused politicians of pursuing their selfish ambitions with no concern for students, who are at home, rather than in the classrooms.
According to him, “We are surprised by their effrontery and total disrespect to the Nigerian people for having the courage to even mute the idea of contesting, talkless of picking up the N100 million APC’s presidential form while students languish at home because of their collective failures.”
Asefon said the leadership of NANS had uncovered a plot by some student leaders allegedly contracted with financial benefits to sabotage the union’s move through the unfriendly action while noting that “our advice is very simple, no matter how much-acclaimed student leaders were paid by their paymaster, they should return it immediately because the wrath of the students won’t spare them even if they enter the dungeon to sow the seed of disunity to fulfil the task given them by their paymasters. We will fish them out of their coven and make them pay for their betrayal and atrocities against the collective interest of the students we all swore to protect.”
