The management of Federal University Dutse (FUD) says its Student Union Government President was not attending lecture in a convoy as widely reported on social media.
Picture of a young man in company of security men had gone viral on social media on Thursday, showing the union leader of the institution in a presidential like manner.
But the institution in a statement by its Chief Information Officer, Abdullahi Yahaya Bello rejected the allegation, stating that it was a footage from a simulation procedure by students of a Department in the institution.
“Our attention has been drawn to a post circulating in the social media insinuating that the Students Union President of Federal University Dutse, Comrade Muhammad Mukhtar Umar attends lecture in a convoy with presumed security in tow.
“The said pictures were taken when the students of Criminology and Security Studies (CSS) Department had their week and the CSS students put to practice how to protect high profile personality by bringing the SUG president to the occasion in that manner.
“It is not possible for that number of students to abandon their lectures just to escort the SUG President to attend a class.
“The Federal University Dutse takes the issue of training students both in character and learning seriously and as such will not condone such action in the campus,” the statement noted.
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