Polytechnic Shut, SUG Disabanded Over Students’ Protest

The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has been shut on the orders of the authorities of the institution. Our correspondent reports that the Students’ Union Government has also been banned by management, with immediate effect.
The actions followed the violent protest staged on Friday by the students over alleged meddling of management in the affairs of the SUG, including alleged attempts to install its stooges as leaders of the students’ body during its election held on Thursday.
During the protest, the students had disrupted normal academic activities by blocking all the gates leading to the institution for hours, thereby hindering human and vehicular movement.
Some valuable facilities in the institution’s School of Engineering were also destroyed.
The institution’s Director of Protocol, Information and Public Relations, Mr. Adeyemi Adejolu, in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, denied the students’ claims that authorities were interfering with the union’s affairs.
He also described as needless and unwarranted the violent protest by the students, saying their action was based on mere rumour from unreliable sources, adding that management had nothing to gain from imposing candidates for students’ union election.
According to him, the decision to shut the polytechnic was arrived at during an emergency joint meeting of the Academic Board and Management Committee held on Saturday.
“The attention of management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has been drawn to insinuations suggesting that the students’ protest of Friday, November 1, 2019 was caused by an alleged imposition of candidates in the students’ union elections, which held the previous day.