The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), has dismissed a report alleging that its Senate was plotting to remove the Governing Council Chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the University Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mufutau Ibrahim, described the report, published by an online medium, as fake and unfounded.
He stressed that the document on which the publication was based did not originate from the institution.
“The management of FUOYE wishes to dissociate itself from the content of a publication mischievously attempting to disparage the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Senator Ndoma-Egba, and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Fasina,” Ibrahim said.
He noted that the purported press statement cited by the medium was unsigned, lacked credibility, and did not reflect the decisions of the university Senate.
According to him, Senate neither indicted the Pro-Chancellor nor the Vice-Chancellor and does not issue press statements after its meetings.
Ibrahim added that the Registrar, as Secretary to Council, is the only official empowered to communicate decisions of Senate, stressing that the alleged document was fraudulent.
He urged security agencies to investigate the source of the fake publication and take appropriate legal action.
Also reacting, FUOYE’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olubunmi Shittu, reaffirmed the loyalty of management to the Pro-Chancellor, the Governing Council, and the substantive Vice-Chancellor, describing the report as baseless and misleading.