Coalition seeks Tinubu’s intervention in UNIZIK VC selection process

…Urges Transparency, Fairness successful Ongoing Exercise

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — A conjugation of civilian nine organisations has called connected President Bola Tinubu to intervene successful the ongoing process for selecting a caller Vice Chancellor astatine Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State.

Operating nether the aegis of the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity successful Education (CAIE), the radical raised concerns implicit what it described arsenic “moves susceptible of undermining the integrity” of the process.

In a connection issued connected Tuesday, CAIE’s spokesperson, Mrs. Ngozi Ekeoma, urged the national authorities and applicable acquisition authorities to guarantee that the enactment process is transparent, credible, and escaped from undue influence.

Ekeoma said the conjugation had observed attempts to reopen controversies surrounding the antecedently annulled 2024 enactment exercise, stressing that “any effort to revisit a flawed process could destabilise the university.”

She noted that the 2024 workout was nullified by the Presidency pursuing concerns astir procedural lapses and deficiency of transparency, starring to the dissolution of the erstwhile governing council.

According to her, “UNIZIK deserves a process anchored connected fairness and merit, not 1 tainted by the controversies of the past. The absorption should beryllium connected selecting a capable, visionary world who volition proceed gathering connected the university’s achievements.”

The conjugation appealed to each stakeholders, including the judiciary and acquisition regulators, to support the autonomy of universities and forestall actions that could stall progress.

Ekeoma added that renewed ineligible tussles and governmental interference mightiness undermine unit morale and disrupt world stability, informing that “the students and the instauration basal to suffer the astir if the process is derailed again.”

She further urged the Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) to guarantee adherence to owed process and uphold ethical standards passim the ongoing exercise.

The radical called for calm among the assemblage community, encouraging faculty, students, and unit to stay focused arsenic the enactment process unfolds.

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