UNILORIN Management Clarifies Position on Alumni Rift, Warns Against Impersonation

The Management of the University of Ilorin has said that it was fully aware of the change in leadership of the institution’s Alumni Association with the election of a new Executive Committee, led by Prof. Abdulrazaq Olubusuyi Kilani, on August 24, 2024.

It has, therefore, condemned the actions of Dr Wale Fasakin, who has continued to parade himself as the Association’s President.

Making this clarification while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin yesterday, the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, said that the tenure of Dr Fasakin “came to an end in 2021 through a resolution of the Association’s Congress.” He added that “a Caretaker Committee was, thereafter, put in place and it ran the affairs of the Association till the August 2024 Congress where the new Kilani-led exco was elected”.

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But the former President was reported recently to have led some people on what they called a ‘courtesy visit’ to an alumna of the University, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Services, Mrs Kemi Nandap, claiming that the visit was by the National Executive Committee of the Unilorin Alumni Association.

University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, first on the right addressing Journalists at the Secretariat of the Correspondents’ Chapel of NUJ, Muritala Mohammed Way, Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday.

Mr Akogun said, “Even though the University Management does not want to dabble into the internal affairs of the Alumni Association, it can no longer sit back and watch the existing unity in the Association be destroyed by needless wrangling.”

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The University spokesman noted that “the management appreciates the relevance of the Association and its potential to make positive contributions to the overall development of the University and so it would stridently continue to find a way of promoting internal peace and harmony within the Association.

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While calling on Dr Fasakin to stop parading himself as National President of the Unilorin Alumni Association, especially as a new executive committee is already in place, Mr Akogun “urged all corporate organisations, government officials, and other well-meaning individuals as well as stakeholders of the University to stop giving audience to Dr Fasakin or transacting any business with him, as he has ceased to be an official of the Association and so, is no longer in any position to represent it”.