ASUU Strike Update: Angry ASUU Leaders Chase Governor Wada Out Of Hospital
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.
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 should have stopped after the incident occured, not visit
after several hours! What do you think?
Source:Punch
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