The unusual celebration of the only administration at the University of Abuja – Opinion – The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

Strange things are currently happening in my alma mater, the University of Abuja that would no longer justify my silence or indifference or that of any person with a minimum of consciousness that is connected to the institution in any way. All people of conscience and good will must intervene to save the University of itself, or rather save it from the inconceivable mischief of the wrong few who are committed to the railroad of our beloved Alma Mater towards self -destruction. I can be far from the Nigerian medium. However, it is still painfully inconceivable to continue observing how some of the university and supposedly the main lights of society are pressing to reverse the recent monumental profits aimed at raising the operations of Nigerian universities through the state of self -control won with effort. It is not only autonomy, but the essence of the University of Abuja as a learning citadel that is under fatal threat.

The recent unilateral and illegal elimination of the 7th youth and dynamic substantive vice chancellor at the University of Abuja, Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi, of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent shock waves throughout the country, especially in the University of Nigeria system . This is due to inherent impunity and the audacity to appoint an interim vice -rector to replace it from another place against all known existing laws and procedures. In a movement of the presidency that has remained inexplicable and inexplicable to date, the government also unilaterally dissolved the entire Governing Council, abruptly dismissing the external and internal members of the highest body. This in itself is questionable since the President by law can only eliminate external members who are appointed by his appointed by the federal government. On the other hand, internal members are elected representatives of the Senate and Congregation of the University. Therefore, they are beyond the legal scope of Mr. President to do what he pleases with his mandate.

Beyond the initial shock of the strange appointment of Professor Patricia Manko Lar of the University of Jos as Vice Chancellor in the University of Abuja, the concomitant palpable fear within the community of the University of Abuja and the largest Nigerian university system in a resumption of a resumption of the spectrum of the only administration that has been stopped since the beginning of the current civil-democratic dispensation in 1999. Technocrats, University with Dons knowledge, and career professionals in the tertiary education sector are rushed to point out that existing laws, specifically the amendment law of universities (various provisions) of 2003, No. 1 of 2007, also known as the Autonomy Law, have effectively prohibited the exclusive administration of Nigerian universities. For example, section 5 (12) of the Law is stated, therefore: “There will be no exclusive administration at any Nigerian university.” Section 5 (13) also states: “In any case of a vacancy in the Vice Chancellor’s office, the Council will designate an interim vice -rector on the recommendation of the Senate.”

However, it is this strange state of affairs at the University of Abuja, where the government flagrantly violated the autonomy of the institution that some academics, including my former teachers in the Law Faculty, have decided to celebrate. All for the envy of achievement and/or unbridled hatred of his colleague by the youngest age that reached the pinnacle of his academic and administrative career. That the self -denominated group of 44 members of the University’s Senate could transcend the gloat about the illegal dismissal of its internal colleague as a vice -rector of the horrible and shameful placement of an ad in the avant -garde of Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 2025, 2025, Appreciate the deep desecration of President Tinubu of existing laws and governance processes and best practices has surely reduced our Dear Citadel to learn in a theater of the absurd. In fact, the temporal fall of Professor Maikudi celebrates anyway, but the work of the past and present heroes of the system, Jegas, Festus Iyayes and the leaders of Contemporary Asuu and the genuine members, to achieve and maintain university autonomy In Nigeria they can never be in avant -garde. In other words, the current university administration can temporarily comfort the sore losers (and their supporters) of the last transition that Professor Maikudi came victorious, but the short -term short -term consequences of his child activism and full of hate Return to pursue and embarrass them in the times that are coming.

By the way, given the shameless way in which the president has eroded the autonomy of the university and intentionally violated the existing laws to enforce the new order of government and incongruous management at the University of Abuja, it has not been clear what mission or noble objective , if there is. The government intends to achieve. This is because even the execution of radical decisions taken in a press statement has been quite bad. Now it has arisen that, although it was announced that President Tinubu approved the “leadership changes”, the letter that appoints Professor Patricia Manko Lar as Vice Chancellor signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education, said the minister Education approved the appointment of the appointment. . This is strange because neither the president nor the minister can approve the appointment of Professor Lar simultaneously. It should be by one of the two authorities, but none of which has the power to do so.

As legally today, the president is only informed of the appointment of a vice -rector (noun or acted) by the Governing Council. He approves the appointment of the rectors of the Federal Polytechnic. The Minister of Education can only approve the appointment of the rector of the Federal Education Universities, acting as its visitor, and has no Locus Standi at all to approve Professor Lar’s appointment at the University of Abuja. To the combination of the combination of Mumbo Jumbo on the university, the breach of why the vicecinancarreta expelled, Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi, were her duties. My contacts at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja have even underlined this as the reason behind it does not receive a letter that transmits its dismissal by the Government. One would have thought that government business, serious, would have required that the administration of Tinubu had diligently thought of all the problems involved in such matters of great importance before taking measures. If not, how and why is it difficult, if it is true, that the government transmits a letter of disconnection to Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi? Or, was it a case of inappropriate advice or mistake of the presidency by some acquired interests still unknown that led him to this avoidable imbroglio?

Whatever the case, the reintroduction of the only administration at the University of Abuja by the administration of Tinubu by other means is not only illegal and condemnable, but is not worthy of celebration for any section of the imagination. Bending so low to appreciate the president for undoing the autonomy of the university and also joining the facilitators of the Odious Project to clarify the return of the institution to the status of what Professor Juga Juga, the former president of Asuu, once described as A “Glorified Grammar School” is a suicidal career of the 44 -year -old career career and his followers. One cannot at this time contemplate change their destiny, but now remember that some of these myopic lots taught us at the university is not only horrible but shameful for all of us; All your students.

Nwoha is a graduate student from the University of Calgary, Canada