NAN president is 35, not 45/ 48..Fayemi’s alleged N40m backing & more

Sunday Dare Asefon, is the new President, National Association of Nigerian Student

He is a 35year old postgraduate diploma (PGD) student of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti.

A former coordinator, Zone D embracing schools in the Southwestern states until his election, he is married with kids.

Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, reportedly oiled his campaign with some cash N40 million largess

Asefon polled 155 votes to beat his fellow contestants in the contest marred with violence and alleged vote buying.

Sporadic shootings rocked the venue of the election at the Old parade ground, Area 10, Garki in Abuja, as alleged cultists brought to the convention ground engaged DSS officials in a shootout.

Outgoing Public Relations Officer of the NANS, who doubles as Special Assistant on Student Matters to the Ogun State Governor, Azeez Adeyemi was reportedly arrested in the process with live cartridge and ammunitions.

Asefon has said that he wishes to assure Nigerian students of his readiness to change the public perspective of NANS by providing focused leadership. A constitutional review programme will be initiated in months to come where students can sponsor memoranda for considerations. Issues such as age of NANS leadership and programme of studies will be addressed once, using the constitutional review process.

Also leadership under Asefon will be pro-students and pro-Nigerians. On this note, he will be dedicating his time in the immediate to ensure that ASUU strike is called off and students return to campuses. He will also be meeting the NBA Chairman to discuss the possibility of setting up legal students intervention programme in each of the 36 States and the Federal Capital territory to take over the cases of victimized and rusticated students leaders across the country. He will also be reaching out to tertiary institutions that has proscribed students union activities with the aim of returning students union in those institutions. It is Asefon’s believe that if ASUU, SSANU, NASU etc cannot be proscribed, the students union should never be proscribed in any campus.

Let me reiterate again that Sunday Asefon is neither 43, 45 nor 48years and his commitment to the emancipation of Nigerian students will not be undermined by non-factual claims aimed at distracting him.