The Abia State University has withdrawn the Bachelor of Arts degree certificate it awarded to a former Governor of the state, Dr. Uzor Orji Kalu.
The withdrawal of Kalu’s certificate, was contained in a statement on Saturday by the Registrar of ABSU, O.E. Onuoha.
Onuoha said there decision to withdraw the certificate was taken after an emergency meeting of the university Senate, which considered the recommendations of an investigative panel that Kalu breached the school’s academic regulations in obtaining the degree.
He said in the statement: “On the strength of the findings and recommendations of an investigative panel into allegations of breach of the extant Academic Regulations of Abia State University, in the admission process of the admission and graduation of Kalu, Orji Uzor in the discipline of Government and Public Administration, of matriculation number 00/42226, the Senate of Abia State University at its resumed 69th Extra-Ordinary meeting of Friday 1st March 2013 and by a vote of eighty-eight (88) against three (3) dissenting voices only, approved the cancellation and withdrawal of the degree result and certificate awarded to him.
“The decision of Senate was based on the following grounds among others:
*The violation of the Academic Regulations of the university on Admission-by-Transfer, which rendered the offer irregular, ab initio.
*The non-completion of the mandatory six (6) semesters (i.e. three academic years of study), before he was awarded a degree of the university. He spent only two semesters in all.
“The university Senate maintained that its action, aforesaid, derived from the exercise of its onerous statutory responsibility to guard and maintain , at all times, the Academic Regulations of the University, its hard-earned reputation and the credibility of the certificates it awards.”
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