By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised the alarm that the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Prof. Kayode Soremekun, was plotting to impose Deputy Vice Chancellor, Abayomi Fasina, as his successor.
ASUU also alleged that Fasina was an unqualified Professor and therefore would not be made the VC of the federal government institution.
The Coordinator of ASUU, Akure Zone, Prof Olu Olu Olufayo, disclosed this in Ekiti on Friday.
The union accused Soremekun of running the university like a private entity and promoting culture of ethnicity, nepotism, financial recklessness and abridgement of due process for personal gains.
ASUU said Fasina, who allegedly absconded from the Ekiti State University (EKSU) in 2015 and collected double salaries running into a sum of N3.4 million from the two universities for about six months, lacked the requisite integrity to be appointed a Vice Chancellor.
But, Soremekun, through the Deputy Director, Corporate Services, Adeyinka Ademuyiwa, said that Fasina was not being imposed by him.
Soremekun pointed out that the process of getting a new VC has begun and hopeful of the emergence of a new VC from this ‘transparent’ process, saying the Zonal ASUU, which commanded poor folowership among lecturers in FUOYE lacked the credibility to impose anyone on the institution through incessant attacks and obnoxious practices.
Soremekun’s tenure will expire as VC in February, 2021.
The Coordinator of ASUU, Akure Zone, Prof Olu Olu Olufayo, clarified that the lingering crisis between the union and FUOYE’s management was not a personal vendetta against anybody, but to prevent the university system from being undermined and desecrated.
“About 70 Professors applied, nine were shortlisted, but we learnt Prof Fasina came first. In the advertorial, Professors from state universities were shut out from applying.
“We won’t resort to brigandage, but we will continue to speak against despotism, disorderliness, brutishness and armtwisting at FUOYE.”
