The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has urged the government to close all schools to allow students’ participation in the 2023 general elections. A statement made available to SaharaReporters by the group's Vice-President, Akinteye Baba Tunde, urged President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to temporarily close all tertiary institutions in the country to allow students to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) that would enable them to exercise their franchise during the 2023 poll.
Nigerian Students Association, NANS Urges Buhari Government To Close Universities, Others To Allow Students Participate In 2023 ElectionsThe National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has urged the government to close all schools to allow students’ participation in the 2023 general elections.
“The case is now different for the 2023 Elections. This is because, during the continuous voter registration exercise, students were in their various homes due to the prolonged Academic Staff Union of Universities strike and about 4 million of us registered newly for our PVCs. “As the leadership of NANS, we cannot sit and watch our school management disenfranchise us with their unfavourable academic calendars that do not take into consideration timelines and dates for election when we know that we have a stake in the turns of things as they will unfold in preceding weeks.
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