ATBU Disowns ‘Alumni’ For Disrupting Senate Hearing On Varsity’s Establishment Amendment Bill

The management of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, has distanced itself from a group of ex-students of the University who disrupted a Senate public hearing on a bill seeking to amend the law establishing the University.

The Bill, sponsored by Senator Shehu Buba, representing Bauchi South in the Senate, seeks to amend the law establishing ATBU from a university of science and technology to a conventional university.

Reacting to the disruption, the University’s management, in a statement on Saturday by the Director of Information and Public Relations, Zailani Bappa, described the alumni group as impostors and not genuine university graduates.
“The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, wishes to distance itself from the action of these impostors who are not graduates of the University.

“The ATBU prides itself with graduating disciplined students who have continuously been good ambassadors of the University across the globe for more than four decades.

“Hence, the University is ever confident that its graduates will never engage in any action that will disrespect the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the statement read.

Bappa expressed dismay that the alleged impostors’ actions had caused the adjournment of the hearing.

“We equally use this medium to draw the attention of all stakeholders to be wary of any persons claiming to be graduates of the University in any further engagements with or on behalf of the University,” the statement said.

It would be recalled that the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund commenced public hearings on the bill last Thursday, but the process was disrupted by the supposed alumni, leading to the indefinite adjournment of proceedings on the bill.