Angry leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities allegedly
chased away the Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada (retd.)
from the emergency ward of the Lokoja General Hospital on Tuesday.
Wada had gone to the hospital to visit their injured colleague, Dr.
Ngozi Ilo, and commiserate with them over the death of their former
President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, in an accident involving his convoy and
an ASUU vehicle on Tuesday.

The Chairman, University of Benin chapter of ASUU, Dr. Anthony
Monye-Emina; and the Benin Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Sunny Iyalo, had
minor injuries and were therefore not admitted into the hospital.
The ASUU leaders, including the National President, Dr. Biodun
Ogunyemi; the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Nassir Adesola; the
Chairman, Lagos State University chapter of the union, Dr. Adekunle
Idris; Monye-Emina; Iyalo and lecturers from the Federal University
Lokoja however sent the governor away from the hospital’s
emergency ward.

Their grouse was Wada’s late response to the accident and the
uncaring attitude he allegedly displayed towards the union leaders
involved in the accident.
They also accused him of trying to make a political gain out of their
misfortune.

Idris, who confirmed that Wada was chased out of the emergency
ward, said, “We are surprised that a state governor could resort to
telling lies because contrary to the claim by his spokesperson that he
showed care towards our colleagues, he did not.

“Somebody that did not stop after his convoy killed our leader;
somebody that did not come to the hospital until some minutes to
5pm(on Tuesday) after the accident that happened around 11am
could not be said to be caring.
“That was why we chased him out of the emergency ward of the
hospital and we also prevented him from seeing Prof. Iyayi’s corpse
in the mortuary.

“We are not happy with the fact that he came very late to the hospital
and the fact that when he came, his press crew attempted to take
photograph and video record of Dr. Ilo, who is our national welfare
secretary. We stopped them because that was the height of
insensitivity.

“Somebody that could not provide us with an ambulance cannot be
said to be caring. We had to call UNIBEN for an ambulance that took
Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital while our colleagues from the
Federal University, Lokoja, with the assistance of the vice-chancellor,
gave us the ambulance that was used to convey the remains of Prof.
Iyayi to Benin.”

Idris added that though Wada left the hospital “like a gentleman,”
some of his overzealous security aides tried to be naughty.
He said, “Some of the policemen that followed him to the hospital
wanted to be naughty but we lectured them. The hospital workers and
the residents of Lokoja who witnessed how we chased the governor
away were happy.”

Also, Adesola expressed dismay at the efforts made by the governor
to rewrite the incident.
He said, “It was actually the last of the governor’s convoy that veered
off the road and ran into a vehicle that was conveying Iyayi and
others.

“When the governor’s convoy came with noise and harassment,
everyone on the road moved to the side of the road for them to pass
but unfortunately, the governor’s aide has told the world that an
ASUU vehicle was avoiding a trailer and ran into their escort vehicle.
“What manner of reckless lying is that? The front of the ASUU bus
remains intact except for the windscreen that broke. Iyayi was sitting
at the back of the bus and the escort van ran into it.

The most annoying part is that the incident occurred around 11am
and the governor did not even visit the hospital until around 5pm.
“He came with a large number of pressmen and security aides and
was attempting to make some political capital out of our misfortune.
“We actually had to chase him away from the emergency ward where
our welfare secretary was still receiving treatment." ...

Source:
www.punchng.com/news/ASUU-leaders-chase-kogi-gov-away-from-hospital/

how is this possible?

festus,ASUU,gej,jagge,convoy,wada,meeting,congress,strike

I hope these guys will not kill their Gov. one of these days. They are too reckles in driving.

Politicians think they are demi gods when they are on the road so they can do and undo.Good riddance for bad rubbish.

I like the part where He said the residents of Lokoja were happy when they chased him away

That was really commmendable. The reaction couldn't have been better. I guess the aides to the governor would have advised the governor to move on that those victims are 'bloody civilian'

The Governor's middle name is an Accident!

Lol

Them wen kill am?

An animal (wada) 'll always behave like one of course. Imagine, a fatal accident occurred @ about 11am, unfortunately for him to have visited d hospital around 5pm it shows how caring he ws... He should call his convoys to order for their careless driving, afterall, they aint d only road users, so that this ugly incident won't occur again.

Nigeria needs to de-militarize our system. Its a shame we still operate a system were office holders go on loud sirens and their escorts use horse whip to flog other road users while driving like lunatics.For christ sake,this is not 1995!