Former president, Olusegun
Obasanjo on Wednesday charged the Vice-Chancellor of National Open University
of Nigeria, NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Adamu to tender an apology over his claim of
him collecting a salary of N40,000 annually from the institution.
Adamu had on Tuesday disclosed
that the former President receives N40,000 annually as allowance for being a
facilitator at NOUN.
“Mr Obasanjo’s allowance is
N40,000 a year and he is happy being our facilitator. He has an office in our
Abeokuta Study Centre, where we attached to him two students of Christian
Theology,” he had said.
Reacting to Adamu’s claim,
Obasanjo insisted that he renders service to the university free of charge.
In a statement by his media aide,
Kehinde Akinyemi, Obasanjo said: “The very clear quotation of the
Vice-Chancellor made it necessary for him to make the clarification and to set
the records straight on his engagement with the university.
“Ordinarily, this will have been
unnecessary exercise, if it has been the usual shenanigans of the media to sell
their newspapers. But, the very clear quotation of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof
Abdalla Adam, on the headline made this clarification imperative and to set the
records straight on His Excellency’s engagement with the University.
“In putting the records in right
perspective, His Excellency wishes to draw the attention of the Vice-Chancellor
to his letter dated 12 April 2018, which was written to the University
Registrar, Mr. Felix Edoka, when the Council offered him a Part-Time
appointment as an Instructional/Tutorial Facilitator and Project Supervisor in
the Faculty of Arts at the Abeokuta Study Centre.”
The former President recalled
that in paragraph 3 of the letter, he wrote: “I will gladly undertake any of
the functions mentioned in paragraph two of your letter pro bono and I hope
that the functions will be flexible enough to accommodate my rather tight
schedule.”
Stating that he has not received
a dime either as salaries or otherwise from the university, Obasanjo stressed
that the statement by the university’s vice-chancellor was embarrassing to him,
“having generated mixed reactions across the globe, hence, the need for the
Vice-Chancellor to retract the statement and tender an apology.
“The publication, which has
generated mixed reactions from the general public and calls from far and near
on the Elder statesman expressing concern, is, to say the least, embarrassing,
uncharitable, mischievous and in bad taste, with immediate demand for a
retraction and apology from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor,” the statement
said.
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