NUGS Election 2021: Yiadom Boakye elected NUGS president

The 2021 National Union of Ghana Students have elected Yiadom Boakye as NUGS president at this year’s delegates conference and elections.

He garnered 522 votes to beat Dennis Appiah Larbi and Dr. Sylvester Owusu Amoako who polled 207 and 91 votes, respectively.

In other elections held top executive positions on the day, Anthony Kwame Julius was elected the General Secretary of the union in a race that saw him beat Alexander Justice Adigbli by 200 votes thus he pulled 492 votes whiles Justice obtained 292.

Other contestants who were given the nod to steer the affairs of the union in other capacities were Grace Bediako for the Secretary for Women Development office, Akwasi Sarpong as Finance Secretary, and Afrani Kesse as Secretary for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Science, and Development.

The Secretary for International Relations went to Oppong Kyeremeh Daniel. To candidates who were not opposed were given the nod by delegates. They are Ms. Amewu Ewenam and David Hughes Doneenoba who obtained enough YES votes as secretaries for Union Development, and for Social and Welfare respectively.

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The newly elected NUGS president and other executives would lead the National Union of Ghana Students for the next one term.

In a related development, the Ghana Institute of Journalism’s  Students’ Representative Council (GIJSRC) withdrew from NUGs Congress, which took place on Monday, May 3, 2021, at the Madina Institute of Science and Technology.

They stated among other things in a letter sighted by this portal saying:

“General Assembly has realized that GIJ-SRC has not fully benefited from NUGS because there is no policy document outlining, guiding, and detailing the vision and mission of the External Affairs Commission (Local NUGS) of the GIJ-SRC.

“The activities of the External Affairs Commission, over the years, has been limited to the provision of birth certificates and passport while voting at NUGS congresses without a clear-cut strategy on how GIJ-SRC will benefit from this. The dissatisfaction of the General Assembly regarding the operations of Local NUGS over the past few years is what has led to this” part of the statement read.

Source: Ghanaeducation.org