The South-West zone of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has distanced itself from the position of its national president on the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
 
The NANS president, Tijani Sheu, and some groups headed by the Director-General of Heritage Group, Katch Ononuju, had on Saturday in Abuja threatened to protest the trial of Mr. Saraki to foreign diplomatic missions in Abuja.
 
Mr. Saraki is being tried at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, for alleged false declaration of asset to the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, and for operating a foreign account when he was Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2007.
 
The pro-Saraki coalition accused President Muhammadu Buhari of complicity in the travails of Mr. Saraki, insisting that the Senate President’s disregard for the directive of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in respect of National Assembly leadership tussle was the root of his trial.
 
But the south-west NANS, Zone D, brushed aside the position of its the national body. It maintained that rule of law should take its course and urged Mr. Saraki to submit himself for trial.
 
This development may have opened fresh dimension to the unfolding drama surrounding the travails of Mr. Saraki who has had to contend with hostilities, mainly from his party, APC, since his June 9 controversial emergence as the Senate President.
 
Speaking on behalf of the pro-Saraki group on Saturday night, Mr. Ononuju said:‎ “Buhari lacks the political will to fight corruption. We are very worried with the ‎turn of things.
 
“The action by the Senate to appoint its own leadership is the reason behind this witch-hunt. Accidents have been arranged for senators who supported Saraki. DSS have been used to trail senators. The current CCB should not exist. The current leadership came into office in 2010 and their tenure ought to have elapsed in April.
 
“The power that seeks to undermine our democracy and the Senate is gaining the upper hand. I want corruption to be fought, but we do not want a return to the days of Olusegun Obasanjo where arrests were targeted. The president makes appointments and does not refer them to the Senate for confirmation because he does not like the leadership there.
 
“Our democracy is under threat and that is why we are talking to Nigerians. ‎Since Buhari took over, everything is going down. We are calling on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) to protect the integrity of the courts by ensuring that injunctions are respected. We are marching to every embassy to tell them that our democracy is under threats.”
 
However, NANS Zone D, in a statement on Sunday by its coordinator, Okikiola Ogunsola, said “NANS as a body” had recently pledged its support for Mr. Buhari’s fight against corruption.
 
Earlier on September 2, the NANS President, Mr. Sheu, led students to Aso Rock Villa to pledge the support of Nigerian students to Mr. Buhari’s administration, particularly its anti-corruption campaign.
 
“Our position is that any individual or group charged or alleged to have participated directly or indirectly in misappropriation, mismanagement or acquired properties in a wrong way should submit to rule of law to take effect,” Mr. Ogunsola said.
 
He added that though the zone had respect for the national body; yet, as “an ideological zone, we would not in any way subject ourselves to any act by our national body that tend to undermine or coerce rule of law from taking its course.”
 
“We are stating in strong terms that our zone is not of the planned protest by the civil society group under the aegis of Heritage Group and NANS,” it said.
 
In a related development, the Deputy Publicity Secretary of APC, Timi  Frank, has condemned calls, particularly by a group, Northern Ethnic Nationalities Unity Congress, for Mr. Saraki’s resignation as the Senate President in the wake of his trial.
 
Mr. Frank, a longstanding loyalist of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, dismissed the group as ignorant, non-existent and “impostor organization hurriedly packaged to do a dirty job at the behest of Saraki’s traducers, with the sole aim of assailing his towering image.”
 
“Where were they when Saraki was governor? Where were they when he was chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF)? Where were they when he blew the whistle on the fuel subsidy scam in the 7th Senate? Where were they when he contested and was elected Senate President?
 
“Let failed politicians not seek to make political capital from this set up against Saraki called asset declaration trial.”




http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/190380-sarakis-trial-splits-nigerian-students-body-nans.html

Buhari is a hypocrite



#likesarakiliketinubu



Nothing good can come out of this dullard in aso rock and their foot soldiers on nl



No more light again, I can see ngeneukwenu and Beremx et all looking for new propaganda else there won't be any pay for them by month. End

hmm

My own take away on this is very simple.
If our dear SP is found to be wanting in any way, he should be tried according to the extant laws of the land.

Even though its a political trial but I expect some level of decorum on the part of the prosecutors.

So since 2003 its only Saraki's file they were able to lay hands on.

Politics is indeed a dirty game

Awon oni iranu oshi,

The way B00HARI is going, He'll soon split this country (...which may be a nice idea). He's setting a bad precedent, "converted Democrat" indeed.

Witch hunting instead of "pighting kwarufshion".

Lalasticlala and ishilove how una dey jare?

NANS should go and protest for Universities to stop collecting N15,000 acceptance fees from freshers and LEAVE Politics alone!....

Misplaced priorities and a slap to our identity

They just kill themselves na

Hmmmm..

As nigerians dey kill dem selves for politician still dey surprise me

How is this part of their business? They better go and face there studies. They are not tired of being used as political thugs. SMH...

abi..
youths self..

Useless NANS.

The NANS president, Tijani Sheu, and some groups headed by the Director-General of Heritage Group, Katch Ononuju, had on Saturday in Abuja threatened to protest the trial of Mr. Saraki to foreign diplomatic missions in Abuja.

Katch Ononuju is a PDP member disguising as a Civil Society person. He even represented PDP in one of the earlier debates on AIT in a run-up to the 2015 elections. He is a wailer and should not to be taken seriously. His actions are neither altruistic nor Patriotic.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201412220109.html

Is the Foolish NANS president an Alumni of UNIBEN?


Cos that type of foolishness in students is the intellectual property right of UNIBEN.



Buhari should close all the Universities if those baggars dare interfere with a judicial process. Cos it means they have nothing they are learning in school.

Proudly 5%, whether saraki go or not e no concern me

h

ishiamu:
Buhari is a hypocrite



#likesarakiliketinubu



Nothing good can come out of this dullard in aso rock and their foot soldiers on nl



No more light again, I can see ngeneukwenu and Beremx et all looking for new propaganda else there won't be any pay for them by month. End

Just gerara hia for real!!!

.

Useless NANS, don't know y dey have not disbanded that group..

Most hostel don't have light for days, appalling sanitary facilities, exploitation of freshers nd these same mumu re talking about politics..

Is this NANS also a political party?

Because Me as a Nigerian student Is not part of it

Nigerians voted for change to end corruption but its unfortunate that some misguided fools have succumbed to the lies of politicians. Nigerians politicians know too well that whatever bad that they have done, their tribal or religious men will support them. That is why if they are found wanting they hide under the canopy of witch hunting. With these ideologies of ours,I am afraid if the war against corruption will scale through.

SeverusSnape:
The way B00HARI is going, He'll soon split this country (...which may be a nice idea). He's setting a bad precedent, "converted Democrat" indeed.

Bad precedent by prosecuting corruption?


Keep Wailing..

What is NANS? Is it baby's food?

igbos. smh

Me sef do NANs,
Na person wey give us money we dey always support then. Our own worst pass prostitute. if Tinubu give us 3m, we support Tinubu, as soon as Obanikoro drop 4m, we change tune asap.
I don repent now sha.

Paid protesters! Let the man face his life!

Make them they kill themselves for politicians, nonsense.

it should be 'saraki's trial splits political body NANS'