A prominent former President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Emma Ezeazu, has died.
Mr. Ezeazu, who was in his late 50s, led Nigerian students between 1986 and 1988, the longest span of NANS leadership by one person in history. He was also credited with reviving students’ unionism at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Sources say he had been diagnosed with a kidney ailment.
Mr. Eleazu ran for the House of Representatives on the platform of the APC, reportedly collapsing during the primaries. Still, he lost the contest by only 14 votes, despite being on a hospital bed.
He was also a former National Secretary of the Civil Liberties Organizations, and Executive Director of Community Action For Popular Participation (CAPP]. He later founded the Alliance For Credible Elections (ACE).
He and the late Chima Ubani also ran an “underground railway” somewhere in Lagos, described as a place where activists stayed beyond the reach of overzealous security agents.