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The campaigns for who succeeds the Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Professor Osayuki Oshodin, when his tenure expires in November 2014, is creating tension in the university. The situation has led to the trivialization of Oshodin’s health, following his trip to the United Kingdom for medical treatment on May 8, 2014.
The Vice Chancellor said early this year in an interview that his health was failing due to alleged poisoning. He lamented however that his doctors were battling with his health in Nigeria since he could not leave the country for treatment as a result of the several meetings being held then to resolve the strike action embarked upon by members of the ASUU. Sunday Vanguard was informed that after the ASUU crisis was resolved, .Oshodin was flown abroad for further medical treatment. Now, sources said the VC has recovered fully and will return to Nigeria this week. But while still battling with his health, some stakeholders at UNIBEN, last week, alleged that there was a vacuum in the running of the institution due to his absence, saying the situation had delayed the appointment of an Acting Vice Chancellor since the tenure of the VC will expire in November.

But the Benin National Congress (BNC), a Benin socio cultural group, described the comments of the stakeholders whom they described as “desperados” as suspicious and wicked, calling on security agents to investigate the matter. The group claimed they may have been involved in the alleged poisining of the VC.

According to the BNC statement, “From Prof. Oshodin’s antecedent as an office holder in the University of Benin, ex-students and staff of the institution nicknamed him a workaholic because he comes to his duty post on Saturdays and Sundays to attend to urgent and critical office work. That a man is sick, not by any natural development, but substantially by a deviously-infused anti-body on account of which he was flown abroad and has substantially recovered and the hospital is in few days away from discharging him, empathy demands that a set of staff who claimed that they love him should treat his perceived absence with respect. To resort therefore to diabolic moves by endorsing such a letter and voting as much as one million, three hundred thousand naira for its publication is to say the least ungodly.

The constitution of Nigeria and the civil service rules envisaged such unpredictable development and thus outlined ways of intervening to sustain and enhance administrative standards; and we are abundantly conversant with the sacrosanct steps that have been taken by the Council and the Senate of the University to promote a robust academic and administrative atmosphere; it is nauseating and self-serving therefore, a situation where members of the same academic community will concoct untenable crops of fallacies to poison the image of the very man that they wish should die.

“In a recent publication, we called on the intelligence community to take steps to clamp down on those behind the poisonous attack on the Vice Chancellor; the authors of this petition deliberately did not attach that publication to their malicious piece, because, it will not serve their interest. The whole unwritten scheme about their plot is a back door plan to install their candidate as acting or substantive VC, and, as a vibrant host community organization with all the apparatuses at our disposal, will resist such a destructive project. No one, no matter how highly placed, known to be behind Oshodin’s medical predicament can succeed him either as Vice Chancellor or any privileged office, because it took us 39 years to produce an indigeneous Vice Chancellor, so miscreants masquerading as academicians cannot fight him through unorthodox means, and seek to succeed him”.

Also in its reaction, the authorities of the UNIBEN, in a statement signed by the Deputy Registrar/Public Relation Officer of the university, Mr Henry Osarenren, described the outburst of the stakeholders as an attempt to misinform the public about the procedures in the running of a university. According to the statement, “The incumbent Vice Chancellor of UNIBEN has been away overseas for medical check-up and he is expected to resume fully any time now. In his absence, the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) have, at different times before August 5th 2014, performed the functions of the Vice Chancellor after due consultation with the Vice Chancellor as necessary,” the statement said.

culled from Vanguard