BREAKING: OAU plans to reinstate suspended students’ union after 4 years

Following the suspension of the students’ union by the management of Obafemi Awolowo University, they’ve revealed plans to reinstate the union.

The info was made known in a statement released by the Dean, Division of Student Affairs, Prof Isiaka Aransi, on Monday.

“It has come to the knowledge if the University Management that the National Association of Nigerian students Zone D is planning to stage a protest in respect of “resuscitation of Students’ Union in OAU.

“The university management wishes to inform all students that prior to the commencement of COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, OAU had taken steps to ensure that Students’ Union was resuscitated on two different occasions but the processes were truncated due to the activities of some group of students on our university campus.

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“Meanwhile, protest or no protest, the university management has already determined to reinstate the suspended Students’ Union before the end of this current 2019/2020 academic session.

“In recognition of the right of freedom of association and assembly as well as the right to ensure that students play their roles actively in decision-making processes as one of the major stakeholders in the university, the management, through the Dean of Student Affairs, took another step in January this year 2021 to present another proposal to the university senate with a view to ensuring that the students union was resuscitated.

“Accordingly, the University Senate considered the proposal at its virtual meeting in January 2021, and in its wisdom advised that resuscitation of students union being an exclusive preserve of students should not be executed virtually while the students were not on the ground in the university.