The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has passed a vote of confidence on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Prof. Bartho Okolo, based on the number of students'- friendly projects his administration has executed in the past four years.
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NANS national President, comrade Yinka Gbadebo, Wednesday, led other executive members of the Association on a fact-finding tour to ascertain the true situation of things regarding the crisis rocking the University in recent time.
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Some staff of the University under the umbrella of Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the university staff unions, had on December 17, 2013, started a protest demanding for the removal of the Institution's Vice- Chancellor, after the Federal Government suspended the Pro-Chancellor of the University, Dr Emeka Enejere Gbadebo said the visit was prompted by a call he got from an anonymous person urging him to mobilize students to join the campaign to remove Prof Okolo based on spurious and unfounded allegation of underperformance and corruption.
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After inspecting some projects executed by the Ololo-led administration in Enugu and Nsukka campuses of the Institution, Comrade Gbadebo declared the support of NANS to the Vice Chancellor, stating that those calling for Okolo's removal were seeking their personal interests and not the interests of the students.
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"having gone round the Enugu and Nsukka campuses of the University of Nigeria, I can boldly say, by the powers conferred on me, that based on what we have seen here today, on behalf of over 40 million Nigerian students that I lead, I am passing a vote of confidence on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Prof. Bartho Okolo, he said"
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Further, the students' President said that what he had seen in UNN had convinced him that the problem in the University was "based on egocentric interest of few people, who perceived that their interests are not encapsulated in the visionary administration of Prof Okolo".