ABUJA-The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has issued a 72-hour ultimatum to Bauchi State governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, to retract his statement on the death of the nine corps members gruesomely murdered by irate mob during the post-presidential election crisis that rocked the state.

President of NANS, Comrade Bassey Etuk Williams, and the Secretary General, Comrade Jossy Ekpe, in a statement jointly signed by the duo and made available to newsmen, noted that the statement credited to the governor was uncalled for. NANS lamented that it was wrong for Yuguda to be justifying unwarranted killing of Teidi Tosin Olawale, Nkwazema Anselem Chukwunoyerem, Okpokiri Obina Michael, Adowei Eliot, Adewunmi Seun Paul, Adeniji Kehinde Jehleel, Gbenjo Ebenezer Ayotunde, Ukeoma Ikechukwu Chibuzor and Akonyi Ibrahim Sule after their parents spent a fortune to train them up to higher institutions of learning.

“We totally condemn the statement credited to the governor.  We have resolved to give him 72 hours ultimatum to retract that statement and apologize to the parents of the slain corps members and the generality of Nigerian students,”, NANS warned.