EKSU Knocks ASUU President, Says Not A Quack University

EKSU Knocks ASUU President, Says Not A Quack University

The control of Ekiti State University has stated that the feedback made with the aid of using the country wide president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, at some stage in an interview on Arise News are unfortunate, reckless, and unwarranted.

The control brought that Osodeke is probably uninformed and/or lacks ideas.

EKSU stated this in a assertion which turned into signed through, Head, Directorate of Information & company affairs, Bode Olofinmuagun.

The declaration read, “The interest of the Management of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti (EKSU) has been attracted to the interview granted the Arise Television through the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke in which he noted a few state-owned universities in Nigeria as quacks and beside the point. In the equal press interview with Dr. Reuben Abati, he indexed a few first era universities as those that remember maximum withinside the ongoing battle through ASUU.”

Revealing how unwarranted and reckless the remark became, they stated, “The Management of EKSU perspectives this denigrating statement approximately a few universities, coming from the National President of ASUU as unfortunate, reckless and unwarranted.
Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti is presently the 14th first-rate college in Nigeria out of approximately 2 hundred universities (Federal, State & Private) and the second great State University in step with the current Webometric rating of universities.”

“Apart from the above, the college (EKSU) has almost all its educational programmes permitted via way of means of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and applicable expert regulatory bodies. The college is proud to have many pinnacle rated globally recognized academics, and its alumni are making waves each Nationally and Internationally. By the grace of God,  Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, the Governor-go with of Ekiti State is an alumnus and a former lecturer withinside the University. Even in ASUU, some of team of workers of our college had served and nevertheless serving in numerous capacities at zonal and countrywide stages such as however now no longer restrained to Professor Afolabi Popoola, Dr. Sikiru Eniola, Profs. Eddy Olanipekun, Ayan Adeleke and Olu-Olu Olufayo.”

“Therefore, categorizing EKSU as a number of the quack and beside the point universities is a sworn statement to the truth that the ASUU President might be uninformed and/or is bereft of ideas. This arrant nonsense coming from Comrade Osodeke is absolutely unacceptable and condemnable.”

“The Management calls on Professor Osodeke to toe the direction of honour through retracting the provocative observation and smooth an unreserved apology with out similarly delay.”

Earlier on Friday, the ASUU president defined the Ekiti State University as “beside the point” and “quack”.