The Governing Council of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has described as illegal the appointment of an Acting Vice-Chancellor for the state-owned institution.
In a statement on Wednesday in Ilorin by its chairman, Prof. Saka Nuru, the council disassociated itself from the appointment of Prof. Kenneth Adeyemi as the vice-Chancellor in acting capacity.
Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed had in a statement by the state Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Mallam Abdullahi Alikinla, announced the appointment of Adeyemi.
The statement had also directed the incumbent vice-chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’Allah, to proceed on terminal leave as his tenure would expire in July.
But the council, in its statement, insisted that the directive was not in tune with the university’s law.
According to it, the action is going to lead to distraction from the Semester examination and the process of appointing principal officers that is currently in progress.
“This action of the state government is illegal and the Governing Council of KWASU has no hand in the directive,” the statement said.
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