NANS AND GROUP OF CIVIL SOCIETIES CALL FOR REMOVAL OF Auchi Poly Board Chairman

NANS AND GROUP OF CIVIL SOCIETIES CALL FOR REMOVAL OF Auchi Poly Board Chairman, Warn Against Sabotaging The Institution Development

BY HENRY TYOHEMBA, Abuja

A Coalition of Educational Advancement have warned the Chairman of governing council, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Chief Micheal Oloyo against Sabotaging genuine efforts to reposition the Institution.

The coalition, comprising of League of Civil Society Groups, Transparency Advocacy for Development Initiative, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and National Association of Polytechnic Students, issued the warning at the end of its roundtable meeting on the way forward in the educational sector, held in Lagos on January 15th, 2019.

The coalition call on His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari to disengage Oloyo following their research of randomly selected institutions and stakeholders, to unravel key reforms that need to be made.

"In the course of this patriotic exercise, the Coalition found series of  conscious and concerted efforts to stall the progress being made in transforming the battered image of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo state, by no less a personage than the Chairman of Governing Council of the Institution. It is worrying that a person of the track record of Chief Michael Oloyo, who is a known leader of thugs amongst other unsavoury activities he carried out during his days as a high ranking PDP kingpin.

"However, like a leopard, that never changes its spots, Chief Oloyo has chosen to act true to type with utter disregard for his role in moulding the new generation aright in keeping with the spirit of the quest for national rebirth that Your Excellency has put Nigeria on.

"In his short stint as Council Chairman, he has subjected the Rector to undue pressures to satisfy his insatiable requests for favours of all kinds, such as requests for hundreds of admission slots among others.He has also been known to subtly oppose the moves by the Rector to reposition the institution to restore it to past glory."

The coalition therefore, charged government to immediately remove Mr Oloyo as Chairman of Governing Council, Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, as his position is no longer tenable while urging either the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Relate Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate him for alleged collection of bribes in a reports received by VoiceAirMedia.
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While commending His Excellency in anticipation of this usual prompt action, they urged bhim to appoint a suitably qualified Chairman of Council who will support the genuine efforts to reposition this great institution and our country that your administration has embarked on.