Federal Ado Ekiti Polytechnics news: It was on Friday that the actions were followed by a violent protest staged by the students over alleged meddling of management in the affairs of the SUG, including alleged attempts to install its stooges as leaders of the students’ body during its election held on Thursday.
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Base on the protest some expensive facilities and equipment in the Engineering Department were destroyed, the students had disrupted normal academic activities by blocking all the gates leading to the institution for hours, thereby hindering human and vehicular movement.
The institution’s Director of Protocol, Information and Public Relations, Mr. Adeyemi Adejolu, in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, denied the students’ claims that authorities were interfering with the union’s affairs.
He also described as needless and unwarranted the violent protest by the students, saying their action was based on a mere rumor from unreliable sources, adding that management had nothing to gain from imposing candidates for students’ union election.
He also announced that the embargo had been placed on students’ union activities with immediate effect.
Adejolu said that an 11-man committee had already been set up to look at the immediate and remote causes of the protest before any further speech.
According to him, the decision to shut the polytechnic was arrived at during an emergency joint meeting of the Academic Board and Management Committee held on Saturday.
“The attention of the management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has been drawn to insinuations suggesting that the students’ protest of Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, was caused by an alleged imposition of candidates in the students’ union elections, which held the previous day.
“For the avoidance of any doubt, it has never been in the tradition of the institution’s management to impose candidates under any guise in the electoral process of all unions at the polytechnic.
“Also for over two decades now, students’ union electoral processes are run and conducted by the students themselves through their accredited representatives called APECO.
“The management only engages in monitoring the process by ensuring that the rules set for they set for themselves are strictly adhered to, under a well-secured atmosphere,” he said.
Adejolu said management was, therefore, surprised at the last unprovoked protest and unverified allegation of the imposition of candidate.
“Management has consequently affirmed that all students resident on campus should promptly vacate their accommodation on a week compulsory break.”
He said The institution’s spokesman said that students would resume Nov. 10, adding that second-semester examination would commence on Nov. 12. Ado ekiti poly latest news.
