By politico staff writer
Iye Abu has on Tuesday 21st September 2021 been elected the first-ever female Students Union President of Njala University. Miss Abu joins her counterpart Adama Sillah of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, to lead the male-dominated campuses.
President- elect Iye Abu won against male candidate, Mambu Lansana Vonjoe, a third year student studying B. SC in Public Health at the School of Community health sciences with a margin of 1, 236 votes while Mambu Lansana Vonjoe got 118 votes.
She is a third-year student and also the president of the school of Political Science at the university and has served as deputy minister of information and communications in the outgoing student’s union government.
Speaking to Politico, one of the electoral Commissioners Tonchena Sia Sandi said the students union elections should have been conducted last Saturday but the police told the college administration they cannot provide the needed security for the event due to the main opposition APC party’s convention in Makeni.
He said, two people contested for the presidency, three for the position of vice president and two candidates for secretary-generalship.
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