Tunde Bakare Slates Nigerian Students For Backing Obasanjo’s 3rd Term Agenda

The general overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has thrown harsh words on Nigerian students for selling themselves cheap.
The former vice presidential candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change made this known at the first National Students’ Summit organised by the Campus Life Project, the National Association of Nigerian Students and the Reach Out Integrated in Lagos on Saturday.
Speaking on ‘Campus Life Decay: What Went Wrong’, Bakare who doubles as Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, blamed the students’ union for endorsing the third term agenda of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He said, “We need to talk about the catastrophic quality of governance in the student unions with due respect to the few exceptions; we need to talk about how the corruption, aggrandisement, violence, incompetence and cluelessness among Nigerian politicians have become the characteristics of politics and leadership among students on campuses.
“We need to talk about the shameful endorsement of Obasanjo’s third-term agenda in 2005 by the National Association of Nigerian Students then led by Kenneth Hembe.
“We also need to talk about how student union leaders in different universities would scramble to share largesse from Nigerian politicians rather than speak truth to power.
“Before you talk about the profligate spending of politicians in your state capital or Abuja, you need to talk about how student leaders budget millions of naira for phantom phone calls.”
He continued, “What I find disheartening, however, is the hijacking of student unionism by political godfathers with the aid of their student conspirators who go on to extend the bad governance records of their godfathers within student union circles and beyond, including rigging student union elections, deploying violence, and making themselves perpetual or never-graduating students in order to continue to feast on the perks of office much like their sit-tight political godfathers.”