Nasarawa
Students Pledge Support for Governor Adamu
Nasarawa
state students studying at the
University
of
Jos
have pledge their support
foe Governor Adamu and the policies of his administration. The  students
made this declaration while on a visit to Governor Adamu at Government House,
Lafia.
Speaking
through their leader, the students commended Governor Adamu for his humanistic
policies and the giant strides already made in the area of education. They noted
that Governor Adamu had transformed all the tertiary institutions in the state
as well as paid their scholarships regularly.
The
students pledged to mobilize all their colleagues to ensure the re-election of
Governor Adamu as the Governor of the state during the 2003 elections. He
condemned those self-styled critics who have been attacking Governor Adamu’s
policies and pledged to ensure that nobody could penetrate their ranks during
the elections.
 Describing
Governor Adamu as a role model, they announced that the student’s body had
chosen Governor Adamu to receive an award of distinction in governance. This
award will be conferred on Governor Adamu on
the 12th of June,
2002
. They also used the occasion
to show Governor Adamu a bus they had bought with their resources and said their
presentation of the bus was a show of their commitment to transparency and
accountability.
Responding,
Governor Adamu commended the students’ shown of transparency and urged other
students’ bodies to emulate them. He hoped that the bus they bought would help
them fulfill their objectives. He therefore urged them to use their energies
very well and in consonance with the ideals of the
university where they were studying.
Governor
Adamu pledged to continue to implement people oriented programmes and to ensure
that the people of the state enjoyed the benefits of democracy.
The
Commissioner of Education, Officials of the students union and top government
official attended the ceremony.
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