TINUBU'S ALLEGED N300M BRIBE SCATTERED NIGERIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION ELECTION

An internal tussle has engulfed the leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) over allegations of N300 million bribes from the All Progressives Congress to gain control of the association ahead of the 2023 general elections.

A petition submitted to the State Security Services (SSS) by Joshua Danladi and seen by Peoples Gazette alleged APC has resorted to massive financial inducement to secure the NANS presidential ticket and other positions for their anointed candidates, who would in turn work for the ruling party’s election victory at the 2023 polls.

“We also have it on good authority that the CPC (Convention Planning Committee) is being hijacked by external political forces within the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are hellbent on imposing their stooges to lead the students’ movement as we inch closer to the 2023 general elections,” reads the petition addressed to the SSS director-general Yusuf Bichi on August 31.

Mr Danladi, a student of Federal University Dutsin-Ma and one of the candidates in the NANS presidential election, said the APC budgeted one million naira bribe per delegate for the 2022 NANS election scheduled to have been held between August 25th to 29th, the petition claimed the association’s election has been deliberately and indefinitely delayed as a ploy for the ruling party to perfect its vote-buying fraud.

“Furthermore, we gathered that the CPC in active connivance with some politically exposed candidates have reached an agreement to prolong the convention as long as it takes from frontline APC and from the presidential villa.”

The indefinite extension of the NANS election has “rendered homeless” hundreds of students who travelled to Abuja and have now exhausted their hotel budget following the unanticipated development.

“One of the politically exposed candidates has so far cashed out over N50m from the APC,” the petition stressed.