The Administration of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, has introduced the dissolution of the 2023/2024 College students Union Executives.
This resolution was taken on the emergency assembly of the Administration held on Tuesday.
DAILY POST experiences that college students of the establishment who graduated between 2022 to 2025 stormed the varsity on Monday to protest the delay of their outcomes and improve in tuition charges.
The scholars who have been seen holding placards with totally different inscriptions akin to “We Need Our Outcomes Now!!! Being An Exterior Scholar Is Not A Crime!!, Mobilise Us Now For NYSC, Two Years After Commencement, ‘We Are Nonetheless House, Mobilise Us Now” additionally shut the principle gate resulting in the varsity, denying educational and non-academic employees entry.
To make sure security of lives and properties owing to the protest, the administration introduced the closure of the Polytechnic from Monday, thirteenth January, 2025, until additional discover.
Nonetheless, on Tuesday, the establishment in an announcement obtained by DAILY POST introduced the dissolution of the coed union executives.
The assertion which was signed by the varsity’s public relations officer, Yemi Ajibola, mentioned the dissolution was on account of the expiration of their tenure by effluxion of time, being at present within the first semester of the 2024/2025 educational session.
He mentioned, “Consequently, the 2023/ 2024 Union Executives is hereby dissolved. Therefore, they need to STOP PARADING themselves as College students’ Union Executives of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta.”
Responding to this, the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) Ogun JCC expressed dissatisfaction with the establishment’s rector, Dr Babatunde Jolaoso, describing his management as a tyrannical rule, which has left college students and stakeholders in a state of disillusionment.
The Chairman, NANS Ogun JCC, Adeyanju Francis, famous that due to his poor managerial expertise, graduated college students have been unnecessarily delayed over the unavailability of outcomes, inflicting undue frustration and jeopardizing their future.
He mentioned, ” As an affiliation, we had excessive hopes for Dr. Jolaoso’s emergence because the rector of this prestigious establishment.
“We rooted for his appointment, believing his educational brilliance would translate into efficient management. Sadly, he has confirmed that educational excellence will not be synonymous with good administration, a important space the place he has failed woefully.”
The scholar physique disclosed {that a} huge protest can be held on Wednesday, 14th January, 2025, on the college gate and the federal government home.
“To that finish, NANS Ogun JCC, along side the acknowledged management of the College students’ Union, has resolved to take decisive motion. On Wednesday, 14th January, 2025, the mom of all protests will begin concurrently on the college gate and the federal government home.
“This demonstration will persist till there’s an instantaneous overhaul of the establishment’s administrative processes. The immediate launch of all pending outcomes for graduated college students. A dedication to addressing the pending time bomb of college charges increment throughout the state.
“It’s value noting that if the problem of college charges increment escalates to a statewide protest, Dr. Jolaoso will bear full accountability for the implications. His stone-heartedness has left us with no selection however to behave within the collective curiosity of all Nigerian college students in Ogun State,” he added.
