Angry leaders of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities allegedly chased away the Governor of Kogi State,
Captain Idris Wada (retd.) from the emergency ward of the Lokoja
General Hospital on Tuesday.
Wada had gone to the hospital to visit
their injured colleague, Dr. Ngozi Ilo, and commiserate with them
over the death of their former President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, in an
accident involving his convoy and an ASUU vehicle on Tuesday.
The Chairman, University of Benin
chapter of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina; and the Benin Zonal
Coordinator, Dr. Sunny Iyalo, had minor injuries and were therefore not
admitted into the hospital.
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The ASUU leaders, including the
National President, Dr. Biodun Ogunyemi; the Ibadan Zonal Coordinator,
Dr. Nassir Adesola; the Chairman, Lagos State University chapter of the
union, Dr. Adekunle Idris; Monye-Emina; Iyalo and lecturers from
the Federal University Lokoja however sent the governor away from the
hospital’s emergency ward.
Their grouse was Wada’s late response
to the accident and the uncaring attitude he allegedly displayed towards
the union leaders involved in the accident.
They also accused him of trying to make a political gain out of their misfortune.
Idris, who confirmed that Wada was
chased out of the emergency ward, said, “We are surprised that a
state governor could resort to telling lies because contrary to the
claim by his spokesperson that he showed care towards our colleagues, he
did not.
“Somebody that did not stop after his
convoy killed our leader; somebody that did not come to the hospital
until some minutes to 5pm(on Tuesday) after the accident that happened
around 11am could not be said to be caring.
“That was why we chased him out of the
emergency ward of the hospital and we also prevented him from seeing
Prof. Iyayi’s corpse in the mortuary.
“We are not happy with the fact that he
came very late to the hospital and the fact that when he came, his press
crew attempted to take photograph and video record of Dr. Ilo, who is
our national welfare secretary. We stopped them because that was the
height of insensitivity.
“Somebody that could not provide us with
an ambulance cannot be said to be caring. We had to call UNIBEN for an
ambulance that took Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital while our
colleagues from the Federal University, Lokoja, with the assistance of
the vice-chancellor, gave us the ambulance that was used to convey the
remains of Prof. Iyayi to Benin.”
Idris added that though Wada left the
hospital “like a gentleman,” some of his overzealous security aides
tried to be naughty.
He said, “Some of the policemen that
followed him to the hospital wanted to be naughty but we lectured them.
The hospital workers and the residents of Lokoja who witnessed how we
chased the governor away were happy.”
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