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Violent protest: School authority shuts Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, bans SUG

The Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has been shut on the orders of the authorities of the institution.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Students’ Union Government (SUG) has also been banned by management, with immediate effect.

The actions followed the violent protest staged on Friday 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.

During the protest, the students had disrupted normal academic activities by blocking all the gates leading to the institution for hours, thereby hindering human and vehicular movement.

Some valuable facilities in the institution’s School of Engineering were also destroyed.

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 rumour from unreliable sources, adding that management had nothing to gain from imposing candidates for students’ union election.

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.

He also announced that 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.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/news/management-shuts-ado-ekiti-federal-poly-proscribes-students-union/amp

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Hardly do you see any form of violence nor protest, cos they have put fear on students.

Too many protest in our tertiary institutions


Uniben own fit continue today

Some valuable facilities in the institution’s School of Engineering were also destroyed.

This is the only issue we have with the present day students.
During our time in UNI, we don't go about destroying the school properties that the student benefit from.
That is crude.

They will still be the ones to pay for it......after everything.

Anyways, ALUTA CONTINUA.......

[quote author= post=83722995]Okay[/quote]whats your shop address and phone number, i need your service for a birthday party

What these students that go about destroying school properties fail to know is that they will always be at the loosing end. No two ways about it.

Lol

It’s always been their practice to impose a yes man. I remember something similar happened in 2002 or thereabout. We were forced to pay 10k each for destroying then rector’s Peugeot 406 prestige. Poly Ado management can sabi fit interfere with sug electoral process.

Fayemi should come and speak phonetics for them...

from ASSU and ippis,to students,SUG in all tertiary institutions, they sha want to show theirself
Every body is just mad in this country

[s][quote author= post=83722995]This is the only issue we have with the present day students.
During our time in UNI, we don't go about destroying the school properties that the student benefit from.
That is crude.

They will still be the ones to pay for it......after everything.

Anyways, ALUTA CONTINUA.......[/quote][/s]

[quote author= post=83722995]This is the only issue we have with the present day students.
During our time in UNI, we don't go about destroying the school properties that the student benefit from.
That is crude.

They will still be the ones to pay for it......after everything.

Anyways, ALUTA CONTINUA.......[/quote]I can bet my ball on it bro, the students didn't destroy anything, all those people calling demselves d management are liars, they meddle in d affairs of d sug and wouldn't allow dem hav any say thereby siphoning the fund and many of dem says they are pastors.

The tym I spent there was hell.

Salvador1:
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Hardly do you see any form of violence nor protest, cos they have put fear on students.

Wen the a former rector was there,he did same at a point but the student union thing have a way of coming back

Freemanbobble:
Too many protest in our tertiary institutions


Uniben own fit continue today

Every body is angry somehow

engrkaz:
It’s always been their practice to impose a yes man. I remember something similar happened in 2002 or their about. We were forced to pay 10k each for destroying then rector’s Peugeot 406 prestige. Poly Ado management can sabi fit interfere with sug electoral process.

From a former student to another former student... The school always have a way of interfering in the students political process though

Hmmm

OlawaleBammie:
I can bet my ball on it bro, the students didn't destroy anything, all those people calling demselves d management are liars, they meddle in d affairs of d sug and wouldn't allow dem hav any say thereby siphoning the fund and many of dem says they are pastors.

The tym I spent there was hell.

You are very correct.. They always have a way of upping their claims to justify the stewpeed reparation fee to be collected later

Pavarottii:
Fayemi should come and speak phonetics for them...

Oshey

Lalasticlala

Fayemi sef

Its sad all these yeye news coming from our ivory towers daily

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I don't think protest is only way to show your pains

Cutefergieee:
You are very correct.. They always have a way of upping their claims to justify the stewpeed reparation fee to be collected later

I know their tactics na, I graduated from there both ND and HND. If I should have my way d school would hav either momentarily or permanently stopped operating by now.

Too much parasites in d system. But Wat am sure of is dat d student might not destroy anything, those pastors putting the waistband of a trouser on a navel are bunch of liars.

quizpaid:
I don't think protest is only way to show your pains

Soo how can student make their discontent known oo, filing a case against the management in d court of law or folding of arms??

OR ARRANGING A PTA MEETING?

If you weren't SUG official in your school days, you don't need to comments on this issue. School management's are very corrupt ; I am talking from experience, a super SUG official for that matter.

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na EKSU be that not fed poly

quizpaid:
I don't think protest is only way to show your pains

so tell me the other way

OlawaleBammie:
I can bet my ball on it bro, the students didn't destroy anything, all those people calling demselves d management are liars, they meddle in d affairs of d sug and wouldn't allow dem hav any say thereby siphoning the fund and many of dem says they are pastors.

The tym I spent there was hell.

U knw them very well...they can claim pastor in that state.