Osun 2014:- We Are Not Endorsing Aregbesola – Students

With only just a couple of days left
till the Osun State Governorship
elections, the Coalition of Osun
State Students’ Movement have
come out and denied endorsing
Governor Rauf Aregbesola for
another term.
The group leaders held a press
conference in Osogbo and revealed
that it was sad that the National
Association of Osun State Students
and the Joint Campus Committee
held a solidarity protest in support
of the striking lecturers of Osun
State-owned tertiary institutions
would come out later and support
the governor while the teachers are
still in strike.
The group said: “We of the
coalition of Osun State Students’
bodies condemn in strong terms
the ‘sponsored’ solidarity rally
carried out by the Joint Campus
Committee, Osun State, few weeks
ago in support of Ogbeni Rauf
Aregbesola’s re-election bid and
also the press statement issued by
the leadership of the National
Association of Osun State
Students’ national secretariat to
endorse the governor for a second
term. ”
Also in a statement jointly signed
by the Students’ Union President of
the Federal Polytechnic, Ede,
Bashir Saheed; Students’ Union
President, Osun State Polytechnic,
Iree, Adetunji Peter; Students’
Union President, Osun State
College of Education, Ila-Orangun,
Abiodun Saheed; and Coordinator,
Coalition of Osun State Students’
Movement, Momodu Munir, the
group said there was no
justification for any group of
students to support the governor’s
second term bid.
The Osun State governorship
election will be held on August 9th,
and Rauf Aregbesola of the APC
will face PDP’s candidate Iyiola
Omisore.