BEING THE COMMUNIQUE OF THE NANS ZONE D COVENTION HELD AT THE FEDERAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, AKURE ON SATURDAY 20TH OF NOVEMBER 2021.

 BEING THE COMMUNIQUE OF THE NANS ZONE D COVENTION HELD AT THE FEDERAL COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, AKURE ON SATURDAY 20TH OF NOVEMBER 2021.

The unity convention duly planned by the joint CPC leadership nominated by the two outgoing factions in the zone started properly with the arrival of senators and other students at around 1PM at the venue of the convention. 

The accreditation of SUG Presidents (Senators) who are delegate of the eligible institutions to vote in the election hall started with the accreditation of senators from Ondo, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos

and Osun respectively while waiting for only Ekiti state to show up. 

It is no longer a news that institutions from the six states of the South West Zone are only eligible to participate in this election. But the CPC ensured that the accreditation process was on pend to wait for the arrival of Ekiti senators so as to give everyone a fair chance at the election. 

At about 3PM, about fifteen buses led by the National President of NANS, Com Sunday Asefon drove in with armed persons. The arrival of these persons led to chaos and chasing of students peacefully converging at the election venue. While the police couldn’t contain the excesses of these people brought by the NANS President, everyone had to run for their dear lives except for the senators and CPC members who were already inside the hall and on campus as these hoodlums couldn’t gain access into the locked campus gate. The intention of the President was obvious that he wanted to violently chase away students and other observers in order to intimidate people and influence the election. 

Fortunately, it takes only about an hour for the security agencies to deploy their tactical anti-cultist units to the venue. These security agencies were therefore able to chase away all security threats at the venue and allowing students with ID Card and no other item into the convention venue. At this point, Com Asefon and his boys could not return to the venue apparently because of the fear of being arrested by the security. It is also believed that the delegates from Ekiti were in the convoy of the NANS President obviously because he’s from Ekiti state. 

After the expectation by the CPC that the NANS President will come back peacefully didn’t become a reality, by 4:30PM the election proper started under the coordination of the two CPC Chairmen, Com Ojo Raymond and Adewale Samson who were assisted by their CPC members. 

After an address of the senators by the CPC on the process of the election, the nomination for the Convention chairman to oversee the election process was conducted following a motion for commencement by the President of Federal Poly of Agriculture. 

The President of TASCE (Ogun) nominated Com Soneye Abdul-Azeez LAS as the convention chairman while it was seconded by the President of FECA (Ondo). Afolabi Olumide of FUTA was equally nominated as the Chairman by the President of FUTA and seconded by President of FECA. An election was conducted in which Comr LAS won and was declared the Convention Chairman. 

The Convention Chairman started his address by dissolving the two factional zonal leadership as well as the joint CPC led by Comr Kowe Odunayo and Comr Kappo Samuel as well as Com Ojo Raymond and Comr Adewale Samson respectively. And the election commenced proper. Comr BabTee of Ondo was nominated and approved as the Convention Clerk while the Convention chairman nominated the dissolved CPC co-chairmen as members of the electoral committee. 

The President of FCA (Ibadan) nominated Com Alao John as the Deputy Cordinator and seconded by President of Oyo State College of Health Science and Technology(Oyo). In the absence of no other nominations, Comr Alao John was declared the deputy Cordinator elect. 

The President of ICT Poly (Itori) nominated Comr Adegboye Olatunji Teejay as coordinated and was seconded by the President of Oyo Special. The President of FECA (Ondo) nominated Comr Olupona Segun DoMercy and seconded by senator of UNIMED (Ondo). Com Awoyinfa Opeoluwa Opiano was equally nominated but he openly stated that he stepped down for Com Teejay. However, Comr Domercy was absent and all senators unanimously agreed that aspirants should be voted for in absentia. Hence, Com Adegboye Olatunji Teejay was unanimously voted for as the Cordinator and announced the Zone D Cordinator elect by the Convention Chairman.

The President of Federal College of Forestry (Ibadan) nominated Comr Awoyinfa Opeoluwa Opiano for the PRO and was seconded by President of UNIMED (Ondo). Com Damola was equally nominated by the President of FECA(Akure). An election was conducted in which Com Opiano won and was declared the PRO elect. 

However, the President of OGITECH (Ogun) raised an observation that the day was getting too dark and the election into other offices should be decided at the next senate meeting of the zone. This observation received a unanimous support from all other senators present. Hence, the convention Chairman declared the election into all other offices suspended till the next senate meeting. 

We acknowledge the presence of all observers, in particular the CPC co-chairmen, Comr Adewale Samson and Ojo Raymond who were present at the convention from the beginning till the end of the election, the NANS JCC Chairmen of Ondo, Ogun, Oyo and Lagos, past and present NANS leaders namely Com Gambo Muhammed (Ex Senate President), Com Yusuf Lawal (Ex Cordinator Zone A), Com Usman Babacankia (Ex Cordinator Zone A), Com Umar Farouk Faqi (Ex Cordinator Zone A) and several other stakeholders.

SIGNED;

COMRADE SONEYE ABDUL-AZEEZ LEKAN LAS (COVENTION CHAIRMAN)

COMRADE AKINTEYE BABATUNDE AFEEZ PKA BABTEE (CONVENTION CLERK)