Osun state APC has described as reckless Governor Ademola Adeleke’s decision to sack Prof Kayode Ijaduola, Mr Oluwole Dada and Dr Adedokun Ojelabi , who had been named as Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and Librarian of the University of Ilesa respectively by the immediate past Gboyega Oyetola administration.
This, the party noted, had , further portrayed the Adeleke administration as one that lacks governance basics.
‘The immediate past Adegboyega Oyetola administration had in November 2022 inaugurated both the University Governing Council and the principal officers before their sudden sack by Governor Adeleke on Thursday.
It would be recalled that the birth of the university was officially pronounced on Thursday, March 31, 2022 with its establishment bill passed by the Osun State House of Assembly on Monday 4th of August, 2022 while it became a legal entity on Tuesday 27th of September, 2022 with the signature of former Governor Oyetola and subsequently licensed to operate with immediate effect by the National Universities Commission (NUC) on Thursday, November 10, 2022.
But Governor Adeleke had claimed that the establishment of the university did not follow due process and as such set up a committee to review the entire process.
However, while the people of Osun were waiting patiently for the report of the review committee, Governor Adeleke yesterday announced Prof. Taiwo Asaolu, who had earlier headed the university’s review committee, as the Vice-Chancellor.
He announced other principal officers as follows: Funso Ojo as Registrar and Amobi Ogunsipe as Librarian. The new appointees are said to be card-carrying members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state’ the party submitted in a statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by the state Acting Chairman, Sooko Tajudeen Lawal.
Osun state APC also noted that ‘it was a pity that Governor Adeleke could set out on a wrong footing by politicizing appointment of principal officers of a citadel of learning’.
The statement noted that there was no reason ‘why Adeleke should be approbating and reprobating at the same time on the issues having to do with the new university in an apparent show of bitterness and debilitating struggle to rubbish the legacy of his predecessor simply because they share different political ideals’.
The party added that the management of a citadel of learning should not only be devoid of political interference, the process of appointment to positions at such an institution should also not be at variance with international best practices.
‘I doubt it if the law that established the University of Ilesa grants the state governor the power to remove or appoint the Vice-Chancellor and principal officers of the university without the recommendation of the Governing Council.
The process of the appointment of the new principal officers of the Ilesa University is crude, illegal and stinks to high heavens as it would be an impossible Utopia for it to surmount legal fire power in any court of law.
The decision to name replacements for Prof Kayode Ijaduola and others is not only reckless but a bad precedent. It is another further indication that the Adeleke administration lacks governance basics.
History will not be fair to those who are thinking for this administration as there is hardly a government policy that has been gotten right by the obviously embattled Adeleke government.
Adeleke has a convincing explanation to make to the parents, guardians and candidates why the precious time, money and opportunity of the supposed first intakes of the university were deliberately bungled by him having continued to play politics of bitterness.
Adeleke administration indeed has been a bundle of disappointment that daily relishes in poor showing in all fronts.
For lack of not knowing what to do, it is in the public domain that the Adeleke administration has engaged in financial recklessness, lack of managerial capacity, disregard for financial prudence, wasteful and extra-budgetary spendings, among others in the last five months’ the statement said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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