We observe with dismay the attempt by Governor Jide Sanwoolu to obfuscate the facts, to muddle the truth in the ceaseless saga of appointing a qualified candidate for the Vice Chancellor position of the Lagos state University, LASU.
Despite his protestations, Sanwoolu has interfered for the umpteenth time in an otherwise simple, procedural arrangement. At least twice he has cancelled a concluded constitutional process, peremptorily dissolved a Governing Board, convoked all kinds of partisan maneuvers to ensure his preferred candidate is chosen as the 9th Vice Chancellor of LASU.
He is at it again. The puppet master is masking behind the scene, pulling the strings as usual, pretending neutrality where he is a partisan. This is not fair. This is not right.
We at Ọmọ Eko Pataki are deeply disturbed at what our dear state has been reduced to in the hands of politicians whose only interest is about personal pursuit.
We are absolutely distrustful of any attempt to sideline well qualified , internationally recognized and well deserving Lagosian Professors merely to favour party apparatchiks. It is wrong. It is unfair. It is unjust.
The Ọmọ Eko Pataki will continue to speak out against all attempts to reduce Lagosians to mere chattels on their own soil. We will continue to speak out against all injustices against our people.
And we will continue to resist with all legal tools those who manoeuvre in the dark to distort the truth. Governor Sanwoolu should do what is right and what is just by appointing a qualified indigene as the next Vice Chancellor of LASU. Enough of all these political gymnastics.
We are not fooled.
*Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (rtd)
Trustee, Ọmọ Eko Pataki
