Ahead of the election to determine the 13th Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, the institution is set to hold its congregation election next week.
OYOINSIGHT.COM reported that the race to replace the current Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Idowu Olayinka is dicey as various strong contenders have joined the race.
The congregation election will produce the 153 congregation members who will in turn elect two Senate representatives that will join other members of the school’s Senate to elect a new don to occupy the most revered seat in the ivory tower.
This newspaper gathered that the congregation election before now has never been really competitive because a lot of aspirants return unopposed and sometimes the institution have to beg academic members to fill it up to meet the required numbers.
However, the intensity of the forthcoming election is so high that as at the time of writing this report, nothing less than 365 academic staff members are jostling for the 153 available congregation seat.
A report by PrimeStarsNews indicated that some Vice Chancellorship aspirants printed the form and distributed to their trusted ones, who they are sure, will not disappoint them.
Though, the election will be held electronically on Wednesday July 29, 2020, the institution has concluded arrangements to hold mock election on Saturday July 25, 2020 to determine the challenges that may arise during the proper election and fix it so that the election will be hitch free.
A statement signed by the Deputy Register, General Administration, A.A. Oladeji and titled, “Congregation Election: Mock e-voting” , read:“The University Community is hereby notified that preparatory to the Congregation Elections scheduled for Wednesday 29 July 2020, there will be a Mock e-voting on Saturday 25 July 2020 from 8.00am to 1pm”.
