The management of the University of Ilorin yesterday said that it was fully aware of the change in leadership of the institution’s Alumni Association with the election of a new executive committee, led by Prof. Abdulrazaq Kilani, on August 24, 2024.
The university’s management condemned Dr Wale Fasakin’s actions, as he has continued to present himself as the association’s president.
The university’s director of corporate affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, during a media briefing in Ilorin, said that the tenure of Fasakin “came to an end in 2021 through a resolution of the association’s congress.”
He added that “a caretaker committee was, thereafter, put in place and it ran the affairs of the association till the August 2024 congress where the Kilani-led exco was elected”.
Akogun said, “Even though the University Management does not want to dabble into the internal affairs of the alumni association, it can no longer sit back and watch the existing unity in the association to be destroyed by needless wrangling.”
He noted that “the management appreciates the relevance of the association and its potential to make positive contributions to the overall development of the University and so it would stridently continue to find a way of promoting internal peace and harmony within the association.”