The National Association of Nigerian Students has suspended
its proposed nationwide protest scheduled for Monday (today) over the
postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

The spokesperson of the association, Azeez Adeyemi disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta on Monday.

The body had threatened to stage a nationwide protest today against
the postponement of the elections by the Independent National Electoral
Commission.

He cited an alleged plan by unnamed politicians to hijack the protest as the reason for “standing-down” the protest

Adeyemi said, “I must say here, after going through all information
in the public domain about the postponement of the presidential and
national assembly elections, we have obviously seen that, there is the
hand of  Esau and the voice of Jacob in the hullabaloo.

“It is based on these premise, that we want to emphatically say that
NANS is not a tool to settle a political issue. We say with utmost
sincerity and seriousness of mind that we are not cowards and he who
runs away from a fight, lives to fight another day.”

“Information has it that some criminals sponsored by some enemies of
our nation and human rights have planned to hijack the voice of the
people.”