Osun govt reacts to pro-chancellors committee’s criticisms over UNIOSUN VC’s tenure extension controversy
The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities (COPSUN) had questioned the two-year extension of Mr Adebooye’s tenure, arguing that his statutory five-year term could not be extended through an executive pronouncement by Governor Ademola Adeleke, who is the university’s or.
The Osun State Government has rejected the characterisation of the extension of the tenure of the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Clement Adebooye, as illegal, saying the committee’s position requires further legal clarification.
Meanwhile the state government insisted on the extension move, saying its decision is guided by university’s governance law and that the state’s House of Assembly had exercised its legislative powers by amending the relevant provisions.
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