YABATECH SUG election eligibility & electoral guidelines, 2022/2023

The management of Yaba College Of Technology Students Affairs Division has released the election timetable for SUG for the 2022/2023 academic session.

The SUG election and voting day has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday 18th January 2023. Other necessary days has been stated on the attached image below. Please note that the voting shall be strictly electronic.

Eligibility and Electoral guidelines SUG Election 2022/2023

The Electoral Committee shall conduct elections into positions in the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislative Council of the Students’ Union for the 2022/2023 academic session.
Full-Time students of the College registered for 2021/2022 and Part-Time students registered for the 2022/2023 academic session shall be eligible to participate in this election.
All categories of students mentioned in 2 above having met the set academic, moral, and other specified criteria shall be qualified to contest for any of the vacant positions in the Student Union.
Candidates to be nominated must be fair-minded and with impeccable character.
Contestants for the position of President, Vice president (Academics), General Secretary, and Finance Director must be full-time HND students with a minimum academic grade CGPA of 3.0 (Upper credit).
Contestants for the position of President must possess an ND certificate from Yabatech.
Contestants for the position of Assistant General Secretary, Welfare Director, Social Director, Treasurer, and PRO must have a minimum academic grade CGPA of 2.5 (Lower credit).
The position of Treasurer is reserved exclusively for ND PT/FT female students.
All positions for Epe campus also include B.Sc students with a minimum CGPA of 3.0
Candidates for Executive positions shall be elected through the electronic voting method.
All eligible voters must possess functional telephone numbers, and reliable e-mail addresses registered in the College portal.
In the event that only one candidate is duly nominated for any of the positions, such candidate (in all cases) shall be declared elected, with at least 50% of the total vote cast.
If there are two or more candidates nominated for each of the positions, the candidates with the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected.
In the event of a tie between two candidates in any of the positions, a second round of the election will be conducted within 48hrs.