LAWLESSNESS IN VC SELECTION PROCESS:
RETIREE VICE- CHANCELLOR VOWS TO ANNOUNCE A NEW VC OF FUOYE THROUGH ILLEGAL PRE-DETERMINED INTERVIEW ON 5TH - 6TH JANUARY 2021
The degree of lawlessness in FUOYE has gone beyond normal since the assumption of Prof Kayode Soremekun as the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti about five years ago. Currently efforts is being put in place to elect a new vice chancellor, but the entire process is marred by irregularity because of manipulation of the entire process by the outgoing vice chancellor who appointed his National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN) aide as Bursar and Registrar and he is in the process of announcing his brother from Ogun State in person of Prof Abayomi Fasina who is tainted with financial fraud or Prof Adimula to cover up massive fraud in appointment and University finances. The process is characterized by lies, deceit and cover up. It was this lawlessness of Prof Kayode Soremekun that led to external members of council, who are Also members of the selection board who rescue themselves from the dubious process. The outgoing VC has planted bad characters in selection board through manipulated of senate representative in selection board.
One Dr Mojisola Oyerequa who has been indicted and removed as Provost of Ikere College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, was hurriedly brought in, to tell regular lies to the press, that dubious process is fair and transparent. The whole
World should ask Dr Mojisola for her first degree certificate and failure to produce such certificate implies that she cannot be the person to interview candidate for VC. She should also produce evidence of when she was made Associate Professor? And how she was pronounced by Prof Soremekun as Professor. The incompetency of Oyerequa is part of the problem because putting the controversial registrar as part of the selection board to her it is legal. The issue is that there os massive illegal appointment leasing to recruitment of criminals into the system, who are in the process of going to press to tell lies. Local chapters of ASUU, SSANU and NASU have written to University Council that Prof Soremekun should proceed on terminal leave and allow fue due process to prevail. He has been accused of manipulating the process and other criminal activities, to the extent that 120 petitions have been written to various relevant authorities. The question to be answered is why FUOYE COUNCIL , NUC and Ministry of Education is not acting to investigate all the various petitions written to them. Not a single petition out of the 120 petitions have been investigated by any panel. Are we building Federal University of Nigeria where lawlessness is the norm? We should all unos that, the current Vice President of Nigeria, Osibanjo, is a Professor of law from Ogun State and this University is in a mess under his watch, with his retiree Vice Chancellor as his brother from Ogun State, who is really stopping NUC or Ministry of Education from ranking decisive action. The problem was not as worst as this in ABU when Adamu Adamu asked the VC to go on six-month terminal leave. The case of Unilag was not as bad and a panel was set up to immediate and remote causes of crises.120 petitions have been written and none has been investigated and criminals are now having a field day in the University.
The VC and his stooges un selection board deceived the whole world that the pocess was put on hold Chile action is on going. The external members of COUNCIL who rescue themselves accused him of holding meetings outside the University venue and reported yo NUC and Ministry of Education. As if the constituted authorities are toothless bulldogs, he went ahead and held another one in Lagos, nothing happened. There are so many court cases stopping the process, but rather than recognizing the constituted authority, another meeting has been scheduled for 5th of January 2021, to announce indicted Prof Abayomi Fasina or his stooge Prof Adimula as new VC, through kangaroo face saving interview process. If illegallity is now the desire of COUNCIL, this rascality must stop. We thereof demand that the VC should proceed on his terminal leave or an acting VC is selected or appointed to midwife the selection process any VC announced under the current administration of Prof Kayode Soremekun will never be acceptable, because the whole purpose will be to cover up.
FUOYE is presently witnessing peace of the graveyard. A lot of people have bottled up a lot of grievances against the out-going administration. The right decision of NUC Ministry of Education in the choice of VC will determine whether the University can move from the facade of quietness to true peace or erupt in crisis in the not too distant future.
