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.
“ The vice chancellor of EKSU was arbitrarily removed. The removal is hereby condemned in strong terms and in its entirety , ” ASUU - EKSU chairman , Prof . Olufayo Olu - Olu , said in a statement in Ado -Ekiti on Sunday .
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.
But ASUU , which said the governor lacked the powers to remove the VC , clarified that , “ It is the university Governing Council that has the power to remove the VC, after following due process . ”
It said : “The university is an autonomous institution with extant rules and governing regulations .
“ The appointment and removal of a VC has procedures under the laws of the university .
“ EKSU is not and cannot be an extension of the Ministry of Education . ”
