PanNigerianNews 
The Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU), has rejected the advertisement for the institution’s Vice Chancellor position.
Pannigeriannews.com reports hat the tenure of the incumbent Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. L. S. Bilbis, will end by July 2024.
Chairman and Secretary of the chapter, Nuruddeen Almustapha and Shu’aibu Sadiku, in a statement jointly signed, described the federal government’s decision to cancel the miscellaneous provisions in the university system as undermining the principles of transparency, equity, and merit-based selection of university principal officers.
According to the union, the National Universities Commission’s arbitrary dissolution of the university’s governing council and all federal universities’ governing councils in June 2023 undermined the institutions’ established procedures and autonomy.
The ASUU chapter alleged that an available report indicated that attempts were being made by some outgoing Vice-Chancellors of federal universities to explore the absence of their Universities’ Governing Councils to impose their stooges as “Acting Vice Chancellors” to cover a plethora of baggage of the outgoing ones.
“Unauthorised advertisement of vacancies for the offices of the vice-chancellors and other principal officers in federal universities also violates proper procedures and threatens the integrity and academic freedom of Nigeria’s public universities,” the union said.
