Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti have dissociated themselves from the planned industrial action in the university.
The factional members of the union reiterated that they were not a part of the decision to embark on industrial action by the local chapter and SSANU Western zone over the recent report of FUOYE’s governing Council which cleared the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Fasina of allegation of sexual harassment.
The SSANU Western Zone had rejected the resolution of the Governing Council, which absolved the Vice Chancellor of alleged sexual harassment, threatening to embark on industrial action across all the 26 universities in the Western zone.
But, the factional FUOYE SSANU group, in a statement by 50 members including Mr J.T. Aborisade and Mr. Wale Owasanoye outrightly condemned the planned as a scheme by undemocratic elements to undermine the university’s peaceful environment.
The FUOYE SSANU members warned the Western Zonal leadership to refrain from meddling in university’s internal affairs, vowing to defend FUOYE’s integrity and ensure external forces do not push the university into another round of needless crisis.
While pledging full support to the university’s Governing Council, they called on Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa to ignore the western SSANU zone threat and prevail on them to allow peace to reign.
The statement reads in part: “History is repeating itself today,as we’re compelled to publicly make our stand known on the position of our Governing Council led by Distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba. We are categorically stating that we are fully in support of the position of the Governing Council over the lingering sexual harassment allegation against our dear VC.
“In our estimation, the Council has been magnanimous enough to have lifted the suspension on Faleye and Aluko, in spite of the gross misconduct they committed which brought the name of the University into disrepute. We are also humbled by the magnanimity of the Council in merely directing Mrs Adebayo, who is at the centre of the injustice done to our great University, to apologise. In other climes, she would have been given stricter samctions .
“Given this scenario, we therefore warn any external elements to stay clear of this issue. We are for peace in our university, and we will not allow any external force to come and disrupt the peace we currently enjoy. Those who cannot stage such impunity in their home institutions should beware of coming to ours to cause mayhem. We equally urge security agents to join us in resisting devilish external forces from disrupting the peace we now enjoy, as brought about by the 8 April 2025 resolutions of the Governing Council of our great University,”.
“We finally call on the Federal Government, through the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Morufu Tunji Alausa, the Honourable Minister for Women Affairs, Mrs. Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), the Senate Committee on Education, the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education, the Senate Committee on WomenAffairs, the House of Representatives Committee on Women Affairs, the National Agency forTrafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the National Human Rights Commission, the Nigeria Labour Congress and all other stakeholders in the protection of the rights of Nigerians to ignore the ranting by the western SSANU zone on disrupting the peace in our University and prevail on them to allow peace to reign.”
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