ASUU UPDATE FUTA: ASUU kicks against FUTA VC appointment, says appointment fraught with fraud, lacks transparency.
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Crisis looms in the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) of the institution were against the appointment of the new Vice-chancellor, Prof. Adenike Temidayo Oladiji, as the eighth substantive of the University.
The Union’s rejection of Prof. Oladiji was contained in a press statement signed by the Concerned Members of Senate, Prof. P. A. Aborisade and Prof. M. B. Oyun.
They alleged that the selection process of the first female Vice-Chancellor was fraught with fraud and lacks transparency.
According to them, the appointment of tramples on the law of the university, (Act No 11 of 1993) as amended (2003) concerning the processes of the selection of a Vice-Chancellor.
“Section 3 (b) states: The Council shall select one candidate from among the three candidates submitted to it under subsection (3) of this section and forward his name to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces”
They, however, noted that the new Vice-Chancellor, University emerged through election process rather than base the selection on merit by selecting the best, saying the resort to voting during the process is alien to the law guiding the selection of a Vice-Chancellor of the school.
According to them “the candidate who came first during the selection process, Prof. Shadrach Olufemi Akindele with 73.9 percent was dropped while Oladiji who came second with 73.8 per cent was selected as Vice-Chancellor through election.
“The Election of a predetermined preferred candidate whose overall score in the process is lower than that of the candidate who came first, throws merit overboard. Unfortunately, that cannot and will not be acceptable to us and shall not stand.
“We in FUTA stand for Merit. We found problems with the process at the very end of the procedure for the appointment of the VC when the council had to pick from the list of the three candidates submitted to it.
“Three nominees will be presented to the council in order of their positions. Under normal circumstances, the council should have picked the first based on merit. There is no lobby about it.“In case, the council will not select the first, it must give cogent reasons why the first must be jettisoned. If the second would also not be picked, there must be a set of reasons for settling for the third.
