Barely a week after the appointment of a new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer for the National Examination Council by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Academic Staff Union of Research and Allied Institute has decried the non compliance of due process.
Prof. Monday Tommy Joshua was announced on Thursday last week as the new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the institution following the exit of former Registrar, Prof. Promise Okpalla.
But ASURAI has faulted the appointment of Joshua.
The position of the Union was contained in a letter addressed to the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau.
The position of the union was signed by its Chairman, Comrade Agwu Arisa.
According to Arisa: “For the avoidance of doubt, since the inception of our institution (NECO), there has been two Registrars/Chief Executive Officers to wit: Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde who was the pioneering registrar, from the South West region of Nigeria, and after serving out his full tenure, the outgoing Registrar Professor Okpala, from the South East region of Nigeria was thereafter appointed.
“He has now not only served out his term, but enjoyed a period of extension of tenure without due process being complied with.
“In the present circumstances, and bearing the principle of federal character, it would only be fair and reasonable to expect that the next to be appointed to the office of Registrar should come from the northern zone of the country.
“The union has been reliably informed that one Prof. Monday Tommy Joshua who is now being considered for appointment as the next Registrar, is not only a non-northerner, but he was never recommended by the Honourable Minister of Education (Shekarau) to President Jonathan for such appointment.”
The Union also disclosed that it was in view of this development that they considered his appointment as intolerable and unacceptable.
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