UNIZIK: Coalition wants Tinubu’s intervention in new VC selection

-Fingers ex- Vice Chancellor of plotting to sabotage caller process

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — A conjugation of civilian nine groups has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene successful the enactment of a caller Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. 

The radical nether the aegis of the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity successful Education, CAIE, accused a erstwhile Vice Chancellor of the assemblage of plotting to sabotage the process enactment successful spot for the enactment of a caller Vice Chancellor.

CAIE alleged that a erstwhile Vice Chancellor was orchestrating efforts to derail the enactment process for the adjacent Vice-Chancellor sequel to a suit filed this week astatine the National Industrial Court successful Awka by Prof. Anthony Chukwudi Okoye successful Suit No. NICN/AWK/51/2025. 

The suit contests UNIZIK’s caller advertisement for the Vice-Chancellor presumption and demands reinstatement of the discredited 2024 enactment process, which was annulled by President Tinubu pursuing wide nationalist backlash.

University stakeholders alleged that Prof. Okoye is serving arsenic a beforehand for the erstwhile VC, whose ain bid for the relation endorsed by the dissolved Governing Council was quashed past year. 

The council’s determination was overturned amid claims of procedural irregularities, opacity, and the sidelining of meritorious candidates, starring to its afloat disbandment.

CAIE branded the suit a “clandestine scheme” to reinstall the erstwhile VC done the backmost door. 

“This is simply a brazen onslaught connected UNIZIK’s stableness and a blatant situation to President Tinubu, the university’s Visitor,” said CAIE spokesperson Mrs. Ngozi Ekeoma. 

“He is exhuming a flawed process rejected by the Presidency, each to sow discord for idiosyncratic gain. Such desperation endangers the full institution,” it added. 

It volition beryllium recalled that the disqualification of the erstwhile Vice Chancellor has agelong been contested. 

The conjugation further accused the erstwhile Vice Chancellor of being a proxy for shadowy interests seeking to power nationalist universities via protracted ineligible battles and bureaucratic sabotage. 

“We impulse the Presidency, judiciary, and acquisition leaders to cull this coercion and uphold ethical governance,” Ekeoma added. 

“UNIZIK deserves a fair, transparent process, not chaos driven by 1 individual’s ambition.”

As the lawsuit advances, anxiousness has gripped the Awka field of the assemblage arsenic module and students, inactive healing from the 2024 scandal, interest that renewed litigation could stall advancement and reignite divisions, threatening the university’s hard-won recovery.

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