controversy as press,Buhari sack 13 vice chancellors appointed by jonathan see the list

The Federal Government has sacked all the vice chancellors of 12 federal universities that were established by the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. 

Also affected by the sack is the Vice Chancellor of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Vincent Tenebe. 

Their dismissal which was contained in a short statement signed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu and obtained by journalists on Saturday in Abuja, simply said:
"President Muahammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of new vice chancellors for the universities."

But the decision is already generating ripples, with some members of the academic community claiming that it is only the Governing Council of NOUN of which Tenebe is a member, that could remove him. 

A human rights organisation, Coalition of Civil Society Groups has protested against the sack in a letter to Buhari, demanding the reversal of the decision in which the NOUN VC was replaced with Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano.

The petitioners said that four out of the 12 newly appointed vice chancellors are from Kano University, an action they said, was a clear violation of the federal character principle.

Vice Chancellors affected by the sack apart from Prof Tenebe include Prof. Mobolaji E. Aluko (Otuoke, Bayelsa), Prof. Jibril Amin (Dutse Jigawa), Prof. James Ayatse (Dutsin-Ma, Katisina), Prof. Mohammed Farouk (Kashere, Gombe) and Prof. Ekanem Braide (Lafia, Nasarawa).

Also affected were Prof. Abdulmumini Rafindadi (Lokoja, Kogi), Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe (Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi), Prof. Isaac Asuzu (Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti), Prof. Geoffrey Okogbaa (Wukari, Taraba), Prof. Lawal Suleiman Bilbis (Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi, Prof. Ben Chuks Okeke (Gusau, Zamfara) and Prof. Shehu Abdulrahman (Gasua, Zamfara).

The statement by Adamu also announced the replacement for the sacked Vice Chancellors.

A former Head of the Department of International Relations at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, who was said to be on Sabbatical in NOUN, is the new Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.

While the Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State has Prof. Auwal Yadudu of the Faculty of Law, Bayero University, Kano as its new VC, Prof. Fatima Batoul Muktar of the Department of Biology, North West University, Kano is the VC of Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.

A lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Haruna Abdu Kaita, is the new VC of Federal University, Dutsin Ma, Katsina State, while Prof. Andrew Haruna of the Department of Linguistics, University of Jos will now function as the VC of the Federal University, Gashua, Yobe State.

While another lecturer in the Department of Pharmacy, ABU, Zaria, Prof. Magaji Garba, will now be VC in Federal University, Gusau, Zamfara State, Prof. Alhassan Mohammed Gani of the Institute of Maritime Studies, Federal University, Kashere in Gombe State has been elevated to the position of VC in the same University.

A lecturer in the Department of Physics, Federal University, Lafia, Prof. Muhammad Sanusi Liman, will henceforth be VC of the same institution.

For Prof. Angela Freeman Miri of the Linguistics Department, UNIJOS, her new portfolio is the Federal University, Lokoja, where she will now be VC.

The Federal University, Ndifu-Alike, Ebonyi State now has Prof. Chinedum Nwajiuba of the Post-Graduate School, Imo State University, Owerri as its VC, while Prof. Seth Accra Jaja of the Department of Management, University of Port Harcourt is now the VC of Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State.

Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu of the Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano is to replace Tenebe at NOUN.

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