NSS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND AN UNEXPECTED VIOLENT ATTACK...

On the 6th of Novembe 2015,Eastern Mediterranean University organized the annual student Presidential Election of 2015/2016 academic session for the Students Society.It was chaired by the International Students Society Administrations,which lasted from 10:00am until 5:00pm.

 During the election a lot of students came over to vote for their candidates.The Nigerian Students Society was among the students Societies, that presented 3 Candidates with a symbolic slogan for their aspirations .The groups are; Action team, Unity Team and Progress Team. At exactly, 6:30pm, the results of the election was publicly announced by the International Students Society Administration.The Action Team Lead by Mr. Clifford Ubani with 196 votes cast,the Unity team lead by Mr.Peter Abue and team Progress Mr Farouk Madaka with a turnout of 336 votes.

In light of the victory of the winning candidate,Farouk Madaka, for the Nigerian Students Society leadership position, all the Progress team sympathizers matched round the school from the activities center towards Akdeniz Dormitory, purposely to express their happiness. It only took a few minutes before, the anti-Progress team sympathizers arrived in a haste with harmful weapons in their hands.an eye witness stated that, some Leaders of Possibility and action Team, and also Unity Team  and many others were also in the crew of the opponents that were at the place attacking some students It was obvious that they intended to apply violence towards the wining team and his followers. In the process of escaping away from them, one of team Progress team sympathizer and also a student of Architecture Department was physically assaulted.

An exercise that was meant to end in a civil way, ended in with a tragic unexpected attack,resulting from failure to maintain self-control.