Nigerian Law Students Honour Gov Ugwuanyi

The Nigerian law students, under the umbrella of Law Students’ Association of Nigeria (LAWSAN), will tomorrow in Abuja, honour Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State with ‘The Governor of the Year Award’.

The law students stated this in a letter jointly signed by their national president and assistant secretary general, Emmanuel Eze Nwobodo and Nafisa Abdullahi, respectively. According to the letter made available to newsmen in Enugu, Thursday, the award was in recognition of Gov Ugwuanyi’s track-records and contributions for the uplift of the Nigerian Legal Education in particular, and leadership in general.

The students stated that, “The recognition is in view of your standing as a deserving contributor to that which concerns youths, coupled with your inspirational personality. We have unanimously concluded that you [Ugwuanyi] indeed represent all that every student, and of course this association labours to achieve, and we graciously seek to have you in attendance as we have chosen you to be the distinguished awardee as the Governor of the Year.”

While stating that it was in the culture of the association to honour distinguished governors who have contributed to legal education and as well ‘assisted in raising the hands and heads of students at challenging points in their life’, his emergence followed due processes.

According to them, “In consideration, we are confronted with a long list of governors. However, we have strategically followed your track-record, and conducted a strict due diligence on your contributions to Nigerian Legal Education and leadership generally. Consequent upon which you have emerged our credible choice as a distinguished guest and awardee at the event of the forthcoming National LAWSAN Convention billed to hold on the 11th September, 2020, in Abuja.”

The law students, who noted that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the attorney general and minister of justice, Ababakar Malami, were past awardees, appreciated Gov Ugwuanyi for the bursary allowances which his administration recently granted to 246 students of the state at the Nigeria Law School, among his other contributions to the legal profession as well as the Nigerian Legal Education.