Ladoja debunks factional leadership in NANS, says he remains authentic president

The President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Olusola Ladoja, says he remained the only legitimate, and globally recognised leader of the body.

According to a statement, Ladoja insisted that there is no factional leadership in NANS, saying the purported claim of a parallel NANS President is laughable and a pitiable display of imposture.

“It is, therefore, necessary to place on public record that Comrade Olusola Ladoja remains the sole, legitimate, and globally recognised President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), having emerged through a transparent, democratic, and widely monitored electoral process,” he said.

Ladoja noted that Atiku, who did not participate in the last convention that ushered in new leadership of the organisation, continued parading himself as President.

He described the act as a violation and impersonation, which shall be met with the full weight of legal and moral consequences.

He stated that “The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) wishes to categorically repudiate, with utmost clarity and firmness, the mendacious and deliberately misleading report disseminated by Sahara Reporters on April 30, 2025, regarding the inauguration and inaugural address of the duly elected President of NANS, Comrade Olusola Ladoja, GCNS.

“To begin with, the publication in question is a vile concoction, steeped in half-truths and malevolent distortions, and is nothing short of a disinformation campaign meticulously orchestrated to sow seeds of discord within the Nigerian student constituency and to impugn the integrity of our noble association.

“To this end, we state, without equivocation, that the content attributed to our President’s address is a blatant falsification. The address delivered by Comrade Olusola Ladoja which was witnessed by the entirety of our statutory stakeholders, dignitaries from relevant ministries, and broadcast live by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), was one anchored on hope, unity, pragmatic engagement, and a clear roadmap towards revitalizing campus security and student welfare across the federation.

“Therefore, the spurious rhetoric attributed to him by Sahara Reporters exists only in the imaginations of those desperate to discredit our emerging ideological shift away from sensationalism towards responsible activism.

“Moreover, we must stress for the umpteenth time that there is no factional leadership in NANS. The purported claim of a parallel president in the person of one Atiku Abubakar Isah is both laughable and a pitiable display of imposture. The said individual did not participate in the last convention that ushered in the new leadership of the organization,” the stated read in parts.