In a dramatic incident, students and staff members of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, have taken unconventional styles to celebrate the suspension of their VC.
Students and staff of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta are happy following the suspension of their VC
Staff and students of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB) were elated following news that their embattled Vice chancellor, Prof. Olusola Oyewole has been suspended by the Federal Government as a result of series of petitions bothering on alleged mal-administration and financial malpractices.
The staff openly fried akara (bean cake) in the field to celebrate the exit of the embattled VC. The students on their part had posters with very bad words describing and cursing the VC.
The symbolic activity of frying 'akara' in Yoruba culture is done to celebrate the passage of a dead one.
As at 11.00am the open grounds had both the Non-Academic union, the senior civil workers' arm of the university and the association of technologists ready to throw elaborate party after the new of the suspension broke. The students and staff of the university couldn't hide their joy.
The chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU FUNAAB), Rotimi Fasuwon said Oyewole's exist "is end to tyranny in FUNAAB. Honestly, we have every course to have this party.
"We experienced a period of authoritarian leadership that has never been in the over 20years existence of this university."