A group of university professors, who are indigenes of the Ilorin Emirate at the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, under the aegis of the Ilorin Emirate Professors at KWASU, have said that members of the group are qualified to contest for the post of vice chancellor of any university in Nigeria, including KWASU and the world at large.

It is recalled that different groups have come out to support candidates to be appointed for the next substantive vice chancellor of the state university in their recent separate views.

In its reaction, titled KWASU VC TUSSLE: UNCOVERING SINISTER MOVE AND PLOTS AGAINST ILORIN EMIRATE PROFESSORS AND STAFF OF KWASU, the chairman and secretary of the Ilorin Emirate Professors in KWASU, Professor A.G.F. Alabi and Professor Mubaraq Sanni, respectively, said that members of the group needed not to contest the position by seeking any undue favour based on any primordial sentiments.

The statement also said that members of the Emirate Professors in KWASU are occupying strategic positions based on merit.

“Ilorin Emirate Professors in KWASU are very responsible citizens of the state and are doing everything possible to support the growth and development of the university. The public needs to note that we are professionals in all our conduct and dealings in all matters that have to do with us either as individuals or as a group.

“We are eminently qualified to contest for the post of Vice Chancellor of any university in Nigeria, including KWASU, and the world at large without seeking any undue favour based on any primordial sentiments.

“We are bold to say that the architects of those articles are ignorant of the situation at KWASU.

“With simple diligence, the mischief makers would have discovered that Emirate Professors in KWASU are occupying strategic positions purely on merit.

The Emirate Professors and other staff members of the Ilorin Emirate are doing very well and can hold their heads high at all times in the university.

Our upbringing has inculcated in our minds and souls the spirit of healthy competition and the acceptance that power comes from our creator, Who gives to whom He wishes and takes from whom He pleases!

“The entire members of the association completely dissociate themselves jointly and severally from such malicious or unguarded publications from un-informed members of the public.

“As a body of respected intellectuals, we assure the entire emirate and KWASU community of continuous support for the present management of the university as presently constituted, and we shall continue to discharge our duties as required by the laws of engagement to the service of the university.”.