The second round of the election for the post of vice presidency was tight and an amazing one. This is so because amongst the three running nominees two of them were females besides Aisha Ahmed Khamiis, from the ICT department won the position of vice presidency with the difference of fewer votes against the running candidates.

        The Election Process

The 48 members of the new Council appeared at the venue around 10am with the main objective of voting for the officials of the Council. On this occasion the president of the university Mr. Ahmed Tahir Mohamed on his keynote address to members of the council and independent election observers prior to the election. In his speech he pointed out the objective and the importance of establishing the Students Council. He remarked it serves as abridge between the management and the students to promote and maintained harmonious relations within the entire community of the university and he added that some potential problems and misunderstandings might be resolved with the joint cooperative efforts. Mr. Ahmed strongly criticized those students involved on the attitude of tribalism and advocated the ideas of mutual respect and tolerance among students. And next a three minute speech was delivered by each of the candidates. The organizing committee then distributed voting format for the council members to secretly vote the favorite candidate whom they wish to elect.

Finally to insure the transparency of the election, the organizing committee counted the number of votes in front of the council members, picking up one ballot paper from rectangular shaped voting box at a time. In the meantime reading it aloud the written name of the candidates and printing it on the white board in front of the audiences.

All in all, the whole elections process was really a wonder to be held for it was a free, fair, smooth and exemplary one.