An inner tussle has engulfed the management of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over allegations of N300 million bribes from the All Progressives Congress to advantage manage of the affiliation in advance of the 2023 popular elections.
A petition submitted to the State Security Services (SSS) through Joshua Danladi and visible with the aid of using Peoples Gazette alleged APC has resorted to large economic inducement to stable the NANS presidential price tag and different positions for his or her anointed applicants, who might in flip paintings for the ruling birthday celebration’s election victory on the 2023 polls.
“We additionally have it on accurate authority that the CPC (Convention Planning Committee) is being hijacked via way of means of outside political forces withinside the All Progressives Congress (APC) who’re hellbent on enforcing their stooges to steer the college students’ motion as we inch towards the 2023 trendy elections,” reads the petition addressed to the SSS director-fashionable Yusuf Bichi on August 31.
Mr Danladi, a scholar of Federal University Dutsin-Ma and one of the applicants withinside the NANS presidential election, stated the APC budgeted a million naira bribe in step with delegate for the 2022 NANS election scheduled to were held among August twenty fifth to 29th, the petition claimed the affiliation’s election has been intentionally and indefinitely behind schedule as a ploy for the ruling birthday birthday celebration to ideal its vote-shopping for fraud.
“Furthermore, we accumulated that the CPC in lively connivance with a few politically uncovered applicants have reached an settlement to lengthen the conference as lengthy because it takes from frontline APC and from the presidential villa.”
The indefinite extension of the NANS election has “rendered homeless” loads of college students who travelled to Abuja and feature now exhausted their resort finances following the unanticipated development.
“One of the politically uncovered applicants has up to now cashed out over N50m from the APC,” the petition stressed.
Credit: Peak News