• Atiku, Sowore, 2 others behind his ‘frustration’

From Fred Ezeh, Abuja

National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Olusola Oladoja, has asked Nigerians to disregard the claims by Atiku Abubakar Isah, that he was the duly elected president of the association in the last convention in February, 2025.

Ladoja told journalists at a press conference in Abuja, at the weekend, that Isah was neither screened nor participated in the election processes that produced the NANS president and other executive members, thus wondering why he will be making media statements claiming he is the authentic or factional president of NANS in a process he never participated.

The NANS president alleged that Isah was being sponsored by some opposition members led by former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar; Omoyele Sowore, and two others including top member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

He thus asked Isah to desist, forthwith, from actions that has brought unnecessary distractions in NANS making it look as if there’s division in NANS when there’s nothing like that in real sense.

He added:”But in any case, in NANS, there are three different approach to resolving such issues, and these includes consultation, consolidation, and confrontation. I think we have exhausted the first two, consultation and consolidation. We might be forced to activate the third approach soon if he fails to stop causing division in NANS through his actions.”

Meanwhile, Comrade Ibeabuchi Moses, pioneer coordinator of NANS in south east zone F, and a member of the screening committee for the last NANS national election, stated that Atiku Abubakar Isah neither expressed interest nor participated in the election processes.

“In addition to that, he never visited any institution for the purposes of campaigning for the position of NANS president or any other executive position. We thus challenge him to provide picture or video evidence of his visit to any institution for campaign.

“Ladoja who was overwhelmingly elected president of NANS participated fully in the processes that culminated in his emergence as NANS president, and the records are there for all to see. NANS election is a very tedious battle. You will be expected to travel round the country for campaign. The pictorial and video records of Ladoja are there for all to see.

“It was after the election that Isah came out to claim that he’s the president of NANS. How can you be president in the election that you never participated nor screened? After the screening, and as a member of the screening committee, we took the names of the candidates to the DSS for further screening, and Atiku Abubakar Isah’s name was not among the names submitted to the DSS. Obviously, some political fingers are behind the actions of Isah,” he explained.