NANS Gunshot, chaos, as students hold convention in Gombe

Heavy gunshots disrupted the gathering of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS on Monday, July 18.

According to PremiumTimes, the gunshots rocked the Pantami stadium in Gombe as the members of the association were holding a convention to elect new set of national leaders.

Secretary of the Students Union in North West University, Kano, and one of the delegates, Adnan Mukhtar, narrated that chaos erupted at about 5:30pm on Monday when a former factional chairman of the association, Prince Miaphen was elected to chair the convention.


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He said many students sustained gunshot and machete wounds after a group suspected to be loyal to one of the aspirants to the position of NANS president began shooting and attacking delegates with machetes and knives.

“There has been tension between the supporters of two of the candidates for office of president, Aruna Kadiri and Chinonso Ubasi and matters came to a head when Prince was announced as the chairman of the convention

“Supporters of Chinonso protested the emergence of Prince because they felt it was a ploy to ensure Kadiri wins. Prince was actually the Director General of the Kadiri campaign organization and as chairman of the convention, they felt he can work in favour of Kadiri,” he said.

According to Mukhtar, the election of Prince was supervised by the outgoing President of NANS, Tijani Shehu.

He also added that all the delegates scampered for safety after things turned violent.