A coalition of civil society groups has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in selecting a new vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
The group, under the aegis of the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity in Education (CAIE), accused a former vice chancellor of plotting to sabotage the process for selecting a new vice chancellor.
It will be recalled that the disqualification of the former vice chancellor has long been contested.
The coalition further accused the former vice chancellor of being a proxy for shadowy interests seeking to control public universities via protracted legal battles and bureaucratic sabotage.
“We urge the Presidency, judiciary, and education leaders to reject this coercion and uphold ethical governance,” Ekeoma added.
“UNIZIK deserves a fair, transparent process, not chaos driven by one individual’s ambition.”
As the case advances, anxiety has gripped the Awka campus of the university as faculty and students, still healing from the 2024 scandal, worry that renewed litigation could stall progress and reignite divisions, threatening the university’s hard-won recovery.
