Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has said it would not bow to any external influence in offering admissions to students this year.

The rector, Mas'ud Elelu, while speaking with newsmen in reaction to insinuation that the institution offers selective admissions, said they had put up a mechanism that eliminates "all influences including human in the cause of selecting candidates for admission into programmes."

The mechanism that was demonstrated to journalists had commenced as a method for selecting students into the 2015/2016 academic session by the polytechnic, he added.

Elelu explained that the polytechnic was having admission challenges because it has in recent time become attractive to prospective candidates due to its uninterrupted academic calendars for over five years now.

Meanwhile, he disclosed that the polytechnic management was proposing a new hostel accommodation for its increasing student population that would be financed by a World Bank organisation.

Already, the institution according to the rector had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the organisation on the proposed hostel project. Elelu said the growing student population had grown beyond that at the inception of the hostels constructed in the 1970s.

He said the hostels were not only old but inadequate, costing the institution a lot of money in maintenance.