Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has denied an alleged attempt by him to tele-guide the selection process of a new vice chancellor for the Kwara State University (KWASU) in favour of particular candidates.
He said such recruitment is entirely the prerogative of the institution’s Governing Council, as the incumbent’s tenure expires.
Ahmed, in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr. Muyideen Akorede, dismissed the allegation circulating on social media as an attempt to blackmail him.
He also dissociated his office or his aides from any attempt to foist anyone on the university as vice chancellor.
Ahmed said he has been briefed by the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, KWASU’s supervisory ministry, that the university is yet to receive any response to its recent advertisement for a new vice chancellor, not to talk of skewing the selection process in favour of any candidate.
The recruitment of a new vice chancellor for KWASU, Ahmed reiterated, would follow guidelines enshrined in the law establishing the university.