Prof. Michael Faborode, the Secretary-General,
Committee of Vice-Chancellors (CVC), says that the tenure of vice-chancellors
of nine Federal Universities will expire on Feb. 15 and that it will be wrong
to describe their removal by President Muhammadu Buhari as a sack.
Faborode, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) on Saturday in Abuja, said that it would not be fair to say that the
vice-chancellors were sacked.
Media report on Saturday was that the Federal Government
had sacked the Vice Chancellors of 12 Federal Universities that were
established by the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.
The report added that the Vice-Chancellor of
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was also sacked.
The affected universities are: Federal University,
Lafia, Nasarawa State, Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, Federal
University, Kashere, Gombe State and Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State.
Others are Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina
State, Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Federal University, Otuoke,
Bayelsa State, Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State and Federal
University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Also affected are Federal University Gashua, Yobe
State, Federal University, Gasau, Zamfara State and Federal University, Kebbi.
“The tenure of the vice-chancellors of nine of these
universities expires on Feb. 15″, Faborode said.
“It will be unfair to say that they were sacked;
they have exhausted their tenure; when your tenure is not renewed; it does not
mean you are sacked. I do not know the reasons why the vice-chancellors of the
other three universities were affected,’’ he added.
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