The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has denied not approving the Amphitheatre venue of the university for a programme in which the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, was invited.
“They wanted them to explain their programmes to the youths, using the university as a springboard for all other youths in this country. They realised that their exams were very much close and it would be a distraction on their part, , which is a very reasonable argument.
“It would be a disservice to the integrity of these young stars for Sowore to have claimed that the university management did all these things. Sowore should understand that there is a wide gap between propaganda and information,” Olanrewaju said. When contacted, the Secretary General of the Students’ Union, Odewale Damilare, also known as ‘Great Sam,’ said the union had to postpone the event due to examinations that were still ongoing., “We wanted to have a programme inviting all presidential candidates; that was in conjunction with another organisation actually. The programme was supposed to be on January 18 and 19 for the candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party and Sowore of the AAC.
Damilare added that the union was yet to officially reach out to the candidates on the development but noted they would do so as soon as possible.The PRO of the union, Ogunperi Taofeek, who also spoke with our correspondent, but was not immediately aware of the said invitation, said although there was a plan to have all the candidates on campus, but things didn’t work out as planned. “Given the fact that we have a short time to the elections,” Taofeek noted that plans were hard to be sealed.
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