The Federal
Government has officially demanded the authority of the Ahmadu Bello University
(ABU) to supply the academic details of lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye,
following the controversy over his completion of his degree programme in
Geography at the University.
A top
official of ABU, Zaria, who pleaded anonymity, told The Guardian that “the
University is already compiling the records of Senator Dino Melaye for the
Government that demanded the immediate release to Government and the University
will respond soon.”
According to
the official, “nobody is in doubt if Senator Melaye attended the University,
but what people are saying is whether he completed his course of study and the
university will make the relevant information available,” adding that, “to the
best of my knowledge, the Senator was on this campus and read a course of study
for which I think he graduated between 1997 and 1998 as the case may be.
“These
details can always be found in the list of graduating students of Geography in
either of those years as the case may be, but for me, I think he ran a
programme and I should think he successfully ended up in either of those years
I mentioned.”
Besides, a
Student Union Government (SUG) official activist and departmental mate of
Senator Melaye, who also pleaded anonymity, said, “the Senator and I were in
Geography Department and two of us were also officials of the National Union of
Geography Students at ABU.”
He remarked,
“while Dino was the National President of Geography Department, I was the
Assistant Secretary General, I presided over his impeachment during the
controversy leading to his ousting from that office.
“Let me tell
you, Dino was a radical student activist in campus. I will give that to him and
at a point he was confrontational to the establishment in the University. And
at last, the institution did everything possible to bring him close and later
became the eyes of the authority on campus.”
According to
him, “I can attest that Senator Dino actually completed a course of study in
Geography in 1998; whether he had carry-over in some courses that were later
waved is what I cannot say.”
“I think
Dino later graduated from ABU, Zaria with a Third class or Pass. I am sure of
that. Let anybody not deceive you that he did not study or graduate in ABU. Go
and find out, he did. He is stubborn, that I will give to him. And I think that
is what is still trailing him in the Senate,” he said.
(The Guardian)
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