ASUU claims EKSU VC removal did not follow due process

The Academic Staff Union of Universities in Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, has condemned the removal of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Oye Bandele, by Governor Kayode Fayemi, saying the action did not follow due process.

Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu, the ASUU chairman of the university said in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday that ” The vice chancellor of EKSU was arbitrarily removed. The removal is hereby condemned in strong terms and in its entirety,”

Olu-Olu said that ASUU-EKSU Congress had, at its meeting on Thursday, January 24, resolved that, “In order to prevent unnecessary crisis and administrative problems, due process should be followed in governing of the university.”

Fayemi had, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Yinka Oyebode, last Tuesday, removed EKSU VC alongside the Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Kolawole Ogundipe; and Provost of College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Prof. Mojisola Oyarekua; and announced their replacement in acting capacity.

The governor’s action followed the report of the visitation panels to the institutions and approval by the State Executive Council of the White Paper on the report.