Obi lied, no student killed in Auchi Poly Violence – Naps

The National Association of Polytechnic Student (NAPS) accused Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labor Party in the 2023 elections of distorting facts and spreading the falsehood for his comments on the crisis of the elections of the government of the Student Union in the institution a few days ago.

Mr. Peter Obi had, via X, denounced the growing culture of illegality in Nigeria, connecting the chaos in the students’ elections to the wider decay in the public conduct and in the behavior of the leadership, adding that two students lost their lives while the security forces have fired indiscriminately against them for no defect.

Telling a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the president of his partner, his partner Eshofune Paul Oghayan, slammed Mr. Obi for having missed the Nigerians with inflammatory and fictitious expressions without checking the information in line with his mantra to “go and verify”.

The text recited in part: “We turn to you today, not only as a student leader, but as custodians of consciousness, a voice sharp by duty and a pen led by justice. In a world where the vile viles of propaganda have become weapons in the hands of desperate politicians, it is our duty to speak boldly, clearly and little dirty.

“On behalf of the over 28.1 million of Nigerian Polytechnic students, I want to say that an independent electoral observation team was deployed in Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State to monitor the 2025/2026 Sug Elections and the lost tests for us were performing, with the most bad tests and the most bad tests, they were not performing saving and by the rescue tests And of a more lost life, with the heaviest tests and the most lost rescue parts, they have not been lost in rescue and by the rescue tests and a more lost salvation, with the most bad tests and the most lost, not accident rescue parts.

“Let the truth echo in every city and campus in Nigeria: no student died. Few students suffered slight injuries from exposure to Teargas, but no hospitalization has been recorded. In fact, even the use of tear gas was to disperse those who were hired to sabotage the elections and not to aim for students respectful of the law, supporting by Peter Obi.

“We challenge Mr. Peter Obi and his sympathizers to present the names, faces and families of the alleged victims. If it is not possible to find any, then it is a deliberate manufacture, harmonized for the political weight.”