ABEOKUTA– The Chairman, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ogun JCC, Comrade Damilola Simeon (Daosmos), has stated that he did not go to the DS Adegbenro Polytechnic, Itori on any revenge mission, owing to the previous attack on his team to the institution.
Setting the record straight, Comrade Simon Damilola denies any involvement of the association in the unrest, during and after the students protest in the institution, adding that the turn of events is disheartening and most unfortunate.
“Ogun State students are known for peace and wherever we go, we always exhibit the trait and quality of the Omo’luabi in us.
“It was a misunderstanding between the management of the institution and the students over the school policy which states that only students with 75% attendance in class for a particular lecture would be allowed to sit for examination.
“With my swift intervention during the protest, the issues were being resolved and the protest subsiding, only for some hoodlums to hijack the protest and attempted to turn it into a major crisis by attacking me and some members of my Exco.
“These unfortunate individuals thought we were going to engage them in a fight so that their aim to disrupt the peace the good people of Ogun State have been enjoying can be achived, but they were soon disappointed when my team, despite provocative attacks, continued on our peace mission”, he stated
He however maintained that there is no factions in Ogun NANS JCC, adding that the students body remains one united family under his leadership with the mandate given to him by all the students of Ogun State on Saturday, January 30, 2021.
“It is important to state that those that earlier attacked me and my Exco members on Wednesday, were not students of the D S Adegbenro Polytechnic, but some hoodlums who hijacked the protest and turned it to riot for their political gains.
“However, stating the facts had become imperative to dissuade the rumours going round that I led a group of people back to the school on Thursday to revenge.
“In setting the records straight, I want to clearly state that, I did not go to D S Adegbenro Polytechnic on Thursday to register any displeasure or grievances, neither did I go there on a revenge mission”, he maintained.
