Workers
and students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Friday
jubilated following the dissolution of the university’s governing council by
the Federal Government.
The
dissolution of the governing council headed Prof. Ndoma Egba was said to have
been announced on the Nigerian Television Authority late night Thursday.
The
Public Relations Officer of the OAU, Mr. Biodun Olanrewaju, also confirmed the
dissolution in Osogbo on Friday.
“I
also saw the advertorial announcing the dissolution,” Olanrewaju said.
The
Chairman of the Non Academic Staff Union in the university, Mr. Wole Odewumi,
said that members of his union and those of the Senior Staff
Association of Nigeria Universities had been jubilating following the
dissolution.
Odewumi
said the appointment of the new Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ayobami Salami, had also
been nullified.
He
said the Federal Government would appoint an acting vice chancellor to direct
the affairs of the university pending the constitution of a new governing
council which would appoint a substantive VC.
The
NASU chairman said workers had shut down the university’s senate building with
the aim of preventing vital documents and property of the university from being
stolen.
He
said, “We are very happy today. We have been jubilating since we heard the
announcement.
“Yes,
it is true that the Federal Government has dissolved the governing council.
“We
are still monitoring activities at the university’s senate building; we don’t
want anything to be stolen from the place.”
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