‘No To Ineligible Candidates’, NAOSS Students protest in Osogbo, threaten to disrupt Election

Crisis erupted on Friday at the Election of the National Association of Osun State Students (NAOSS) over the eligibility of some of the candidates aspiring for one office.

NAOSS is holding it’s annual Election of a new leadership on Friday at the NUJ press centre, Iwo/Ibadan road, Osogbo, Osun state capital.

Voice Air Media gathered that the Constitution has rendered some candidates ineligible.

In a petition sighted by Voice Air Media that: “the provision of Article 5, section 28, sub -section (b) of the NAOSS Association, says a contestant vying for the post of President or speaker of the association, without any form of exception, MUST be a 300L student in a recognized Nigerian University or an HND 1L student of a recognized Nigerian Polytechnic.”

The aggrieved students during a march protest gathered at the entrance of the venue, mobilize themselves to boycott the Election if justice is not prevailed.

They carried placards of various inscriptions such as “Say no to Ineligible candidate”, “No Osogbo presidency no Election”,we lack confidence in NAOSSIEC SAY NO TO KANGOROO ELECTION”, “Osogbo says no to injustice” and others.

Addressing the press thereafter, Adeyemo Abdullah, also known as Triple A, is a student at the Department of Office Information Management at the Lead City University in Ibadan.

According to Triple A, the students have gathered for the presidential election of the NAOSS, National Association of Osun Students. As an Osogbo indigene, their objective is to vote peacefully.

According to their observations of the selected candidates, one of them is ineligible to run for president or speaker, according to the NAOSS constitution article 5 section 8 subsection A and B, which states clearly that “the eligible candidates who aspire to go for the post of president or speaker must be 300level students or hnd 1.”

Alleged Manipulation

According to the Report, that one of the contestants vying for the position of the President of the association, Adeoye Kazeem, from Iperin area Idi-Agbon Ila-Orangun is a 200L student of Adekunle Ajasin Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo state.

Meanwhile, all efforts to reach the Electoral Committee Chairman, simply identified with his as Lugard(nickname) proved abortive as at time of filling this report.