Vice Chancellor aspirant drags UniUyo Governing Council to court
Prof. Effiong Johnson, a Vice Chancellor
aspirant in University of Uyo, has challenged
his disqualification by the Governing Council
at the Federal High Court.
Johnson, who is a former Dean of
Students Affairs, said in Uyo on Sunday
that he was surprised that only his name
was omitted from those invited for final
interview to the office of the vice
chancellor.
As the university orator, I am not
satisfied with the treatment meted to me
by the governing council of which I have
been a member for three terms.
The advert declaring vacant the position
of the vice chancellor of the University
of Uyo came out in the punch newspaper
of April 28, 2015 and criteria for the
person of the vice chancellor were
clearly stated.
This is my third term in the governing
council; with that credential, I am not a
novice, neither do I fall short of the
requirements for the vice chancellorship
position.
Item B which, among others, stated that
the person of a vice chancellor, as
advertised, should have had twenty years
of experience in the university setting,
ten of which must be as a professor.
I also heard some rumour that the
governing council may have had another
interpretation to that particular
criterion.
I clocked ten years as a professor on Oct.
1, 2015, and the interview for that job
was billed for Oct. 15, 2015.
So, I had to institute a case challenging
the process of my not being invited in
the Federal High Court,’’ Johnson said.
He said that before the interview was
conducted, the university was served
with an injunction restraining the
governing council from conducting the
interview.
He said that in spite of the injunction,
the university went ahead to conduct the
interview without inviting him
Johnson said the fact that he was not
invited for the interview was evidence
that something was wrong which the
court must unravel.
It would be recalled that on Oct. 19, the
university Registrar/Secretary to council,
Mrs Edak Umondak, announced that the
governing council had approved the
appointment of Prof. Enefiok Essien, as
the new vice chancellor for the
institution. (NAN)
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