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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Joint Campus Council (JCC) Lagos State Axis has condemned the University of Ibadan’s administration for allegedly persecuting student activists, including Comrade Aduwo Ayodele and two other student leaders.
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The group accused the university’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Kayode Oyebode Adebowale, of using the institution’s disciplinary panel to suppress student activism. “The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Joint Campus Council, Lagos State Axis, condemns in the strongest possible terms the attempt to resume the persecution of Comrade Aduwo Ayodele and two other courageous student leaders of the University of Ibadan by the Professor Kayode Oyebode Adebowale-led tyrannical administration,” the statement read.
NANS described the latest disciplinary summon as “a blatant assault on the soul of students’ unionism” and “a gross abuse of institutional authority.” “This latest summon — the third in a pattern of vindictive political persecutions — is nothing but a blatant assault on the soul of students’ unionism and a gross abuse of institutional authority,” the statement added.
The group warned that the action would only strengthen student resistance, saying, “We declare, without fear or apology, that this clampdown will not work. It will only fuel the momentum of a growing student movement and further expose the rot at the core of leadership in many tertiary institutions and their shameful alignment with oppressive governance structures.”
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NANS defended the actions of the affected student leaders, insisting they had done nothing illegal and had simply exercised their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The group called on students and allies across the country to speak out against what it described as “shameless tyranny.”
The demands listed by NANS include the immediate withdrawal of all disciplinary charges against Comrade Aduwo and his fellow comrades, a full and independent investigation into the abuse of disciplinary panels as political tools of suppression, and an end to administrative impunity and the criminalization of students’ activism in Nigeria.
The statement concluded with a vow of continued resistance, saying, “The leadership of NANS JCC Lagos stands in full, militant, and unyielding solidarity with Comrade Aduwo Ayodele and all student leaders facing persecution in UI
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