Group urges 13 VCs to resign over illegal appointment

A coalition of some civil society organisations have advised the 13 Vice-Chancellors of federal universities in the country who were wrongly appointed by the Federal Government last February to take the path of honour by resigning their offices.

The group explained that this measure had become imperative following President Muhammadu’s apologies to the country over the ill-advised dissolution of the governing boards of the affected universities, which preceded the sack of the former Vice- Chancellors and the appointment of new ones.

In a statement at the week-end in Abuja, signed on behalf of the coalition by the National Convener of the Concerned Citizens for Educational Decelopment (CCED), Comrade Solomon Adodo and the Executive Director, Friends in the Gap Advocacy Initiative (FGAI), the groups commended the principled position of Professor Auwal Yadudu, who bluntly refused to accept the offer of appointment as Vice- Chancellor of the University of Birnin Kebbi, for not following due process.

The group also highlighted the action of Professor Andrew Haruna, Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Gashua, Yobe State, ( one of the 13 Vice Chancellors), who in apparent recognition of his illegal appointment has now applied to the University of Jos as one of the candidates for the vacant office of the Vice-Chancellor of that university.