…as incumbent President, INEC evade election ground
The National body of the Ilorin Emirate Student Union has today elected, Mr. Oloha Hadi, new president of the Association.
This was coming after an election was conducted by caretaker ISEC committe constituted by the caretaker committe.
Oloha Hadi of Kwara State Polytechnics, Ilorin who polled 18 votes to defeat his opponent, Uthman Habeebullahi of Bayero University who only polled 1 vote.
Speaking after the election when contacted by THE INFORMANT247 correspondent, the Chairman of the ISEC committe, and President, Unilorin chapter of the Association, Mr. Sheu Apo said the election was conducted in accordance with the Constitution.
“The Constitution gives room for the president, in consultation with local chapter president to set up a caretaker committe if the incumbent executives could not conduct elections and transit before the domocracy day. The committee will constitute an ISEC to conduct the election to usher in new executives”
“But the president after setting up ISEC fails to conduct election even after en-marking today as the election day. They all fled the election ground with our money to prevent transition from taking place. Then the local chapter president met and have an agreement to constitute caretaker committe, since the president has grosly flaut the provisions of the Constitution. Incumbent executives and ISEC constituted by the president were discussing by the Senate arm. The Caretaker committee then set-up ISEC committee which I chaired, to conduct the election which we did peacefully and in accordance with the Constitution”
It was gathered by our correspondent that somw members of the Association has been in loggerhead with the president on the manner in which the ISEC was constituted and their operation.
The aggrieved party among the executives claimed the ISEC instead of being an Independent body has been taking directives from the president which may hinder the transparency and credibility of the election.
“He want to impose a president on us through a dubious way but we resisted it and conducted the election in a more constitutional and credible way”, The outgoing PRO, Comr. AbdulGaniyu Ayara said.
Bodies present to monitor the election are; NAKSS, National Headquaters and Union stajeholders including two past presidents.
All efforts to contact the president prooved abortive till the time of feeling this report as his number indicate switched off.