It is no longer news that the embattled president, University of Ilorin Alumni Association, Dr. Stephen Fasakin has been suspended over his letter to the vice chancellor of the university on election of representative to the institution’s council.
What is however news is the subsequent appointment of Dr. Musa Abdullahi as the acting national president of the association at the end of the meeting of the body held on Saturday 27th March, 2021, at the university auditorium.
Reacting, the embattled president, Dr Fasakin has described his suspension as a joke taking too far, adding that he has not been removed by any instrument of Unilorin Alumni Association and still remain the president of the association.
Read Dr Fasakin’s full response:
My response to your question is that the information is untrue and outlandish.
I have not been removed by any instrument of Unilorin Alumni Association.
Those that gave you the false information are those that are trying to forment trouble in the Association for their own personal gain.
I was elected the National President of the Association on the 7th March, 2020. The Constitution of the Association has provision for removal of officers. They are in possession of the Constitution. They went to school and they should let that show in their acts.
A faceless fellow, unknown to any organ of our Association, has taken certain prayers to the Kwara State High Court in Suit No: KWS/92/2021 between Mr. Jimoh Saliu v. Dr. Fasakin Stephen Olawale & 3Ors. This group of people didn’t allow the court to give it’s verdict in the matter before they resorted to a futile attempt to polarize the Association by calling for an unconstitutional and an illegal congress.
When I got wind of the notice of the illegal congress called by one of them who is an accomplice of Dr Musa Abdulahi, a member of our Executive Committee, who is on suspension from the Association because of certain misdemeanor committed by him, same person, who has been parading himself as, (self appointed), acting president of the Association, I caused letters to be written to the Commissioner of Police, the Director of DSS, Kwara State Command and the State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, informing them of the illegal congress planned by this group of people.
The same letter was copied to the office of the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrar of the University of Ilorin.
Thereof, the planned illegal congress was foiled by the University authority. Constitutionally, this group doesn’t have power to call for congress. Neither do they have the locus standi to embark on this mission they have subject themselves to.
What they are trying to do is rooted in illegality and the fruit of it is nothing but failure.
However, whether legally or Illegally, the long and short of the story is that I am still the President of the Association.
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