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FCE(T) workers tackle provost over tenure extension

Monday’s protest started around 9 am as FCET staff members marched through the college premises singing solidarity songs.

They also carried placards with different inscriptions some of which read: ‘President Bola Ahmed Tinubu your authority and assented law is been usurped by Azeez and other authorities’, ‘Concerned staff FCE(T), Akoka Law supersedes connection or monetary influence. Let the new act take its hold in Akoka’, ‘Concerned staff FCE(T), Akoka,’ ‘Azeez is as good as a sole proprietor due to his dictatorship, not as a public officer.’ ‘Concerned staff FCE(T), Akoka, ‘Leaders who seek only power and control will end up losing both.’

Speaking at the protest, The deputy registrar, Chris Olamiju, told our correspondent that the Provost’s tenure in office had come to an end on the 26th of May 2024, according to section 13 subsection 7a and b of the new Act signed by President Bola Tinubu.

Olamiju quoted the Act as thus, “If on the commencement of this section, a Provost appointed before the commencement of this Act has held office for (a)less than five years, the provost shall be deemed to be serving the five-year single term and shall not have the right for the renewal of his appointment for a further term of four years;

“(b) more than five years and serving the second term of office, be deemed to be serving the last term of office without any further extension”