The management of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), has dismissed a viral report alleging a plot by the institution’s Senate to unseat the Governing Council Chairman, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, and the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina.
The university described the document on which the report was based as fake, stressing that it did not emanate from FUOYE authorities.
It also urged security agencies to investigate the source of the document.
In a statement on Saturday, the University Registrar and Secretary to Council, Mufutau Ibrahim, said the report by an online medium was unfounded, lacking merit, and should be disregarded.
The medium had claimed in a Thursday publication that the university Senate was plotting to remove the Governing Council Chairman for supporting the Vice-Chancellor, among other allegations.
But Ibrahim said, ‘The management of FUOYE wishes to dissociate itself from the content of a publication by a medium on 21st August, 2025 in which they mischievously attempted to disparage the persons and positions of the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Senator Ndoma-Egba, and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Fasina.
‘The medium purportedly relied on a spurious press statement issued by nameless individuals through a document not signed by anyone, contrary to all known principles of journalism.
‘The other issue is that the phony press statement referred to by the medium was not derived from the decision of Senate of the university and more importantly, Senate did not at anytime indict the Pro-Chancellor or the Vice-Chancellor over recruitment or any such matter.
‘Also, it is not in the culture of the Senate of FUOYE to address a press conference after its meetings and, at no time did Senate ask any group of persons to issue press statement on its behalf. The Registrar and Secretary to Council is the one who has the statutory power to disseminate the decisions of Senate, if any.
‘In this instance, the Registrar did not sign the document used mischievously by the medium and neither did it emanate from the Senate nor the Senate has anything to do with the fake document.
‘We, therefore, wish to inform the University Community and the general public that the information purportedly used to craft the publication issued by the medium did not emanate from the authorities of FUOYE.
‘Therefore, the content of the entire publication should be disregarded completely.
‘Consequently, we implore relevant security agencies to investigate the sources of the fake documents that the medium attributed to the distinguished Senate of the FUOYE and apply the necessary force of the law to ensure a redress in the matter’.
Also reacting, the FUOYE Acting Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olubunmi Shittu, pledged loyalty to the Pro-Chancellor, Governing Council members and the substantive VC, Fasina.
Shittu said, ‘The report is baseless and unfounded as it never emanated from the Senate of the university or an issue before the Senate’.
