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NANS Speaks On Meeting Tinubu, Shettima For Politics

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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has denied claims that it met with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, for politics.

The National President of the association, Sunday Asefon, made this know in a statement made available to newsmen in Ado Ekiti on Thursday.

Naija News recalls that the NANS leadership had on Tuesday met with Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima in Osogbo, the Osun state capital.

According to Asefon, the NANS leadership met with Tinubu and Shettima as part of efforts to end the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU).

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He said the association decided to meet the APC Presidential candidate due his influence in the Muhammadu Buhari-led government and within the ASUU ranks.

Asefon argued that NANS said the former Lagos State governor’s support was deemed appropriate to save the education system.

He assured students and parents that NANS under his leadership would leave no stone unturned to halt incessant ASUU Strike in Nigeria.

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He said: “In our continuous efforts in advocating for the end to the prolonged ASUU Strike, I led the national executives of NANS and stakeholders to meet with the Presidential Candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to harness his contacts to prevail on ASUU and FG to put an end to the protracted industrial action.

“It is our believe that no stone must be left unturned in ensuring that ASUU return to the classrooms. It wasn’t something political, but a step considered imperative to save our education system.

“We are still going to consult other critical stakeholders to intervene in this matter and save our country from imminent collapse, because the future of any country depends on the qualities of its graduates and its future leaders.

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“We had fruitful engagements and Asiwaju, who passionately expressed concerns, commended the students leaders for their initiatives to engage in high level and seek political solution.

“He shared in our position that every reasonable Nigerian must be seriously concerned as the continuous strike poses a great danger to security and collective wellbeing of our nation.

“We are still going to consult other critical stakeholders to intervene in this matter and save our country from imminent collapse, because the future of any country depends on the qualities of its graduates and its future leaders.

“We had fruitful engagements and Asiwaju, who passionately expressed concerns, commended the students leaders for their initiatives to engage in high level and seek political solution.

“He shared in our position that every reasonable Nigerian must be seriously concerned as the continuous strike poses a great danger to security and collective wellbeing of our nation.

“Asiwaju  had promised to immediately step up his interventions, even now that the President has opened the window for individual contributions to dialogues in pursuit of the end to  the industrial action.

“Nigerian students expressed our deepest appreciation to Asiwaju for cutting short his very tight schedule and campaign activities to address our leadership and made strong commitment to end the strike.

“He also promised to continue to engage with us and youth organisations across the country to tap into our strength, ideas and creativities in the days ahead while ensuring that youth and students will form integral part of his programmes.

“We have reached a stage in this struggle where the end is more important to us than the means and as leaders we will not do less than our very best to ensure the end of this strike.”