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Comrade Oreoluwa Koiki, Chairman aspirant, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ogun Joint Campus Council (JCC), has officially declared interest in the position.
Koiki made his intentions known in a press conference held on Tuesday.
He said the student movement in Ogun State was at a critical turning point.
The aspirant decried that campuses in the state were currently facing a disconnect between the leadership of the struggle and the daily reality of the students in the lecture halls.
He promised that his leadership would focus on empowering Presidents and Senators of Student Union Governments (SUGs), ensuring collaboration and solidarity when one campus is under pressure.
Koiki said, “As we look across our Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education, the reality on the ground is clear.
“Our campuses are currently facing a disconnect between the leadership of the struggle and the daily reality of the students in the lecture halls.
“Today, the average Nigerian student in Ogun State is battling with rising institutional fees, deteriorating campus infrastructure, and a growing sense of vulnerability regarding welfare and security.
“Unfortunately, the voice that is supposed to speak for them has often been heard more in political corridors than in the administrative blocks of our various institutions.
“We have seen a trend where student leadership is being moved away from the roots, leaving the local SUG governments to fight their battles in isolation. This gap has created a vacuum that we can no longer ignore.
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“The core of my declaration today is a return to the fundamentals. I am stating categorically that our leadership will be a campus-based leadership.
“We are not coming to lead from the comfort of external offices. We are coming to lead from the frontlines of our campuses.”
Koiki emphasised that his campus-based leadership promise entails ensuring that NANS Ogun JCC is felt on every campus.
He explained, “We will not be a ‘social media’ leadership; we will be a ‘lecture hall’ leadership that understands the specific challenges of each institution.
“We believe that the primary strength of NANS lies in the various Students’ Union Governments. Our leadership will focus on empowering SUG Presidents and Senators, ensuring that when one campus is under pressure, the entire state stands in solidarity.
“We are bringing the struggle back to the base. We will engage school managements and government authorities with high-level intellectual diplomacy, ensuring that the student interest is protected through superior logic and administrative precision.”
The aspirant asserted that the students of Ogun State deserve a leadership that breathes the same air they breathe and walks the same paths they walk.
“We are here to bridge the gap between the leadership and the led.
“The movement for a student-centered and campus-rooted JCC starts now. We are not just running for an office; we are running to return the power to the campuses,” he stressed.
