With just few weeks to the national covention let take a review of the aspirants.
In the 1970s, the National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS) was founded. Few years after, in the year 1980, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) was founded to replace the now defunct National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS).
The main aim of the Association is to protect the interest of Nigerian Students but that hasn’t been so in recent years as there has been increasing level of corruption and widening gap between the Students and NANS executive officers.
Although the current President of NANS Tijani Usman inherited an association with integrity problems, indiscipline, selfish alliance, and a partisan interest; not much was done to address these problems since inception last year.
As another election drew nearer, many Aspirants have shown interest to occupy the students’ number one post. The next president is expected to come from Zone B axis of the association which is made up of all higher institutions in the South South and South East region of the country.
Meanwhile, mudslinging name calling, blackmail and social media wars have suddenly become handy tools in the battle.
Nevertheless, 8 strong Aspirants have shown interest to contest for the presidency. Let’s meet them:
Comrade sheriff emeka eboh
There is sometime so special about Sheriff, he is the only person that has cordial relationship with the management of Schools in the South East and South South. Even without holding any post in NANS presently, he has been using his connections to help reinstate students back to their campuses within his Zone.
His main manifesto if voted for is to return NANS back to the campuses and look beyond money politics in the Association.
He has also used his connection to give jobs ranging from lecturing to executive administrative assistance in Anambra State University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Nnamdi Azikwe University; including over 284 admission slots without any demand of payment.
Comrade chinoso obasi AKA ALUTA IBB
A postgraduate student of ebonyi state university studying petroleum engineering ,he was one time a former students' Union PRESIDENT ,NANS Zone B coordinator and a member 2014 national conference as one of the representative of nans
He is married with two children.
Igwe was the conventional Chairman that conducted last year election, He is a former Students’ Union President of the University of Abuja
Haruna is a student of the University of Benin. He was once a Zonal factional Coordinator and has been a member of NANS for the past 20 years. Haruna once contested for the Presidency of NANS with Comrade Tony Nwoye, a former Anambra State PDP Chairman and former PDP Governorship Candidate in the State.
Comrade Nkwankwo Ezekiel: NANS National Public Relations Officer is an Agricultural Engineering Student of the Imo State Polytechnic. He believes by his qualification and experience as a former Zone B Coordinator, Deputy Coordinator and presently the spokesman of the Association.
Comrade Unkwachukwu Okpaloka:
is a student of University of Nigeria, Nsuka, Enugu State. He is presently the Special Adviser to NANS President, on special duties and campus affairs. Comrade Chika Nkwankwo Isaiah is another student of the Nnamdi Azikwe University, Akwa, Anambra State. The political Science Education Student was a one time Zone B Director of Sports before becoming the NANS National Assistant General Secretary in 2008.
Chuks Favour Obelle is one of the oldest aspirants in this election having spent close to two decades in the association. He is a student of Nnamdi Azikwe University currently.
Comrade Anya S Anya a former Vice President (Special Duties) of the association is a student of Agricultural Engineering in Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo State.
COMING UP: THE NANS VICE-PRESIDENT ASPIRANTS 2016
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