MAU VC, Tukur has turns himself into an adviser on appointment to Gov. Fintiri -CSO
Some civil society organisation leaders have called on Governor Fintiri of Adamawa state not to allow the role of a demigod being played by Prof. Tukur in his government as such will not augur for his administration.
The leaders, who spoke under the auspices of the civil society leaders in the Northeast, said the Vice-Chancellor should resign to his former position as secretary to Adamawa state government when Fintiri was the acting governor in 2014 than to play the demigod of suggesting appointments and recommending people for contracts to the governor.
In a statement issued in Bauchi on Thursday, the National Coordinator of the group, Mr Suleiman Mohammed, said, “Our concern is that if the Vice-chancellor can recommend people for contracts and appointments under Fintiri’s watch is most unfortunate and height of irresponsibility as his action is against civil service rule.
“Tukurs should come clean in the recent appointments of members of his community into heads of higher institutions in Adamawa as most of the appointments made so far suggest that he is a demigod, Tukur, who should be busy with activities of his university rather than choose to appoint himself as “governor adviser” role he has given himself.
“How can one doubt the fact that almost all Fintiri’s appointments come from Mautech? Are they no better people apart from those from Mautech? But the Vice-Chancellor decides to give himself a role that is alien to his condition of service or the rules guiding his office as Vice-chancellor; he should resign.
“We have not seen any state Vice-chancellor or Federal university Vice-chancellor that have given himself or herself a position as a governor adviser in Nigeria.”
“The Vice-chancellor should be blamed for the underdevelopment of the Mautech under his watch since he has decided to surrender his duty for a newfound role in Adamawa government house.
“It is only in Adamawa state that a Vice-chancellor turns himself to an adviser on appointment to the governor.
The Finder awaits Tukur’s reaction to the CSO’s press statement