The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has call for urgent suspension of Rector, Federal Polytechnic Ede, Dr. J.T. Adekolawole from office following ‘no confidence vote’ passed on him by the Academic Board of the Institution.
The union said the call for suspension of the Rector was to avoid anarchy resulting from credible reports that the Rector is having a bed as part of the furniture in his office as well as his escapades in the past where he was suspended by the Polytechnic for two months for allege sexual harassment.
A letter dated December 16th 2020 address to the minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, the union said the Rector lack moral ground to remain in office after no confidence vote in a meeting he was physically present.
The letter which was signed by the National President , Comrade Anderson U Ezeibe said the union may be left with no option to mobilise her members to withdraw services if Dr. Adekolawole remains in office.
Comrade Anderson said the reason is that “the Rector had continued in defiance of the resolutions of the meeting which found him culpable of the allegations of mounting an illegal programme thereby defrauding unsuspecting members of the public over the years, acts of plagiarism, turning the Polytechnic into his family affair through indiscriminate and undeserving promotions and posting of members of his immediate family into sensitive positions in the Institution, victimization of staff and proven cases of fraudulent transactions in the Polytechnic”.
The union however said as part of her demands , requested for appointment of an Acting Rector to administer the Institution till further notice, setting up of an all-inclusive special visitation panel to look into the allegations against Dr. J.T. Adekolawole.
“These demands are driven by the need to save the Polytechnic from the anarchy which Dr. J.T. Adekolawole’s maladministration has resulted to.
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“We may be compelled to direct our members in the Polytechnic to cease all and any form of recognition of Dr. J.T. Adekolawole as the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede if he continues to function as the Rector of the Polytechnic”.
The letter was also copied Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Ag. Executive Secretary, NBTE, Director, Tertiary Directorate, FME, Dr. J.T. Adekolawole, Rector, Federal Polytechnic Ede, the Academic Board, Federal Polytechnic Ede c/o The Registrar, Chairman, COHEADS and Chairman, ASUP Federal Polytechnic, Ede.
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