Monday 29 August 2016

UNILORIN ASUU FIGHTS NATIONAL BODY OVER OLOYEDE’S JAMB APPOINTMENT



L-R: Accountant, Mrs. Ajetunmobi Ayowunmi with Secretary Seventh Day Adventist Church Ogun State Conference, Pastor Rufus Atoki , Principal Elder Samuel Obot and a member of Parent Teachers Association Pastor Mayowa Adefuye during Babcock Academy, Abeokuta, prize giving day ceremony, recently.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities,ASUU of the University of Ilorin has condemned the negative
stance of its national body against the appointment of Professor Ish’aq Oloyede as the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB.
Professor Oloyede is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the university who was
popular among the staff particularly the larger faction of ASUU in the university. The UNILORIN branch Chairman of the union, Dr. Uthman AbdulRaheem cautioned the National Executive Council of the union against actions that were capable of foisting crisis in the branch because it had failed to force unpopular leadership
on them.
Any form of crisis they argued would not be in the interest of their innocent students who had steadily been enjoying
improved academic excellence as well as the welfare of ASUU’s teeming members.
According to the statement, “What the ASUU NEC is lamenting is its serial failure to foist unpopular leadership on the
branch. Majority of our members had insisted and still insisting that ASUU NEC will continue to fail woefully and sulk until it embraces the elementary democratic principles in the election of leadership.
“We advise the executive of the union to retrace its path back to the dreams of our founding fathers- Mahmud Tukur, late Festus Iyayi and Attahiru Jega, who all embrace democratic norms and meritocracy.”
“We consider the recent negative observation by ASUU-NEC, as published in some sections of the media, on Professor
Oloyede’s well deserving appointment, as baseless, reckless and ill–conceived.
They argued that Oloyede’s “records are impeccable. He stands tall. Therefore, he is not only suitable and fit for this current position, but even for higher challenges at national and international levels.

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