A former Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Henry Okunomo has condemned the alleged involvement of Seyi Tinubu, President Bola Tinubu’s son in the affairs of the association.
Okunomo while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily said Seyi has taken over the affairs of NANS and thereby making the association porous for his personal gains.
He said, “If care is not taken, with the involvement of the President’s son for the past one year… he has done everything to make sure that the organisation is porous.
“What he stands to gain, I don’t know. What he stands to achieve, I don’t know,” Okunomo said.
He further called on Nigerians to inquire from the president’s son what he stands to gain by interfering with the association despite not having any reason to be part of it.
“What is his interest in NANS, he wasn’t a stakeholder, he didn’t school in Nigeria because the only thing that can qualify you to be a member of the organisation is if you are a student schooling in Nigeria; you are a member.
“That means you have the right to contest in the organisation but if you did not fall in this category, there is no way you would term yourself as a stakeholder of the organisation,” Okunomo said.
He also said that the leaders of the association are beginning to derail from the purpose for which NANS was created.
According to Okunomu, the members and leaders of the association now believe they have to associate with on politician or political party to get things done in the interest and welfare of Nigerian students.
“The organisation is almost losing it because these people have so programmed the organisation in such a way that if it does not have government backing, I am afraid you cannot be able to become anything. Everyone is now tagging themselves to one political party or the other,” he added.
