UNILORIN MANAGEMENT PROVIDES CLARIFICATION ON ALUMNI CONFLICT
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The University of Ilorin’s management has acknowledged the recent leadership transition within the Alumni Association, following the election of a new Executive Committee headed by Professor Abdulrazaq Olubusuyi Kilani on August 24, 2024.
As a result, the management has denounced the actions of Dr. Wale Fasakin, who has persistently presented himself as the president of the association.
Making this clarification while speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday, the university’s director of corporate affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, said that the tenure of Dr Fasakin “came to an end in 2021 through a resolution of the Association’s Congress.”
He added that “a caretaker committee was, thereafter, put in place, and it ran the affairs of the association till the August 2024 Congress, where the new Kilani-led exco was elected.”
Recently, the former president was reportedly involved in leading a group on what they described as a ‘courtesy visit’ to Mrs. Kemi Nandap, an alumna of the university and the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Services. During the visit, he claimed that it was organized by the National Executive Committee of the Unilorin Alumni Association.
Mr Akogun said, “Even though the University Management does not want to dabble into the internal affairs of the Alumni Association, it can no longer sit back and watch the existing unity in the Association be destroyed by needless wrangling.”
The university spokesman noted that “the management appreciates the relevance of the Association and its potential to make positive contributions to the overall development of the University, and so it would stridently continue to find a way of promoting internal peace and harmony within the Association.”
While calling on Dr. Fasakin to stop parading himself as national president of the Unilorin Alumni Association, especially as a new executive committee is already in place, Mr. Akogun “urged all corporate organisations, government officials, and other well-meaning individuals, as well as stakeholders of the University, to stop giving audience to Dr. Fasakin or transacting any business with him, as he has ceased to be an official of the Association, and so, he is no longer in any position to represent it.”
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