The controversy surrounding the selection of the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan has continued to festered as some professors at the institution on Friday explained that the current selection process for the next Vice-Chancellor can’t continue .
OYOINSIGHT recalls that following the decision to put on hold the selection process after a protest by workers who decried the attempt to impose a candidate on the institution, the school’s Senate vowed to proceed with the ongoing selection process.
The Senate, after an emergency meeting, also threatened to punish workers who protested against the ongoing process, a claim the chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria University, UI, Mr. Wale Akinremi later described as mentally idle.
However, some professors who are also members of the Senate told DAILY POST that the ongoing process is faulty, noting that the petitions which were written by some Senate members including a lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Professor Ademola Omobewaji Dasylva and other Senate members against the selection process have not been addressed.
A Senate member who lectures at the Faculty of Technology said that the organization of such a meeting should be queried.
He said, “Whatever I say, I don’t want you to quote me. For me, the organization for such a meeting can be queried. We have 657 members and just 188 attended, it is not fair representation. Some of the people that signed the call for meeting were coerced. Some people even signed without knowing the purpose of the signing. They just asked them to just sign. It was later they got to know the purpose of the signing”.
Another Senate member in the Faculty of Agriculture alleged that some members of the University Senate who attended the meeting were coerced.
She said, “Senate members on ground are 657 and only 188 attended, out of which some were coerced, and some may not agree with resolutions”.
Another Professor at the faculty of Arts said that he did not attend the meeting because the decision of the emergency meeting has already been predetermined.
“I did not attend because I am conscious that decision will be skewed. And I did not want to be used to achieve predetermined decision”.
