The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, Federal College, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Tajudeen Opoola, has mentioned that the establishment’s Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, doesn’t run an administration that muzzles the Muslim neighborhood on the campus.
Opoola, a Muslim, spoke in an announcement made out there in Ado Ekiti on Friday in response to the allegations by the Muslim Rights Issues chief, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, that the Vice Chancellor was muzzling the Moslem neighborhood within the establishment.
Akintola had in an announcement accused the VC of, on two current events, having prevented Muslims from going for Jumaat prayers in view of programmes slated for the interval.
However the DVC, who described Prof. Fasina as “a extremely religiously tolerant chief and brother”, clarified that the lately performed Congregation on campus was scheduled to carry from 10am to 12pm on a Friday and that reveals it was not meant to undermine the interval of Jumaat service. Nevertheless, Muslim members went for Jumaat service and returned with out hindrance.
“Ordinarily inaugural lectures in FUOYE maintain between 2pm and 5pm on all week days. However the final Friday’s inaugural lecture in query was delayed by administration to commerce by 3pm which implies it started after the Jumaat service.
“Those that fed the MURIC chief, Prof. Akintola, lies concerning the character and management model of the VC didn’t imply effectively and solely did so for egocentric and mischievous functions.
“Whereas appreciating and commending MURIC’s concern for the welfare of Muslims in FUOYE, it’s eminently necessary to tell the general public of Prof. Fasina’s optimistic stand on the promotion of Islam in FUOYE.
“There was cordial relationship between Muslim and Christian communities in each Oye and lkole campuses of our college via a non-discriminatory angle of the VC, who has carried out a lot in help of Islam on campus in contrast,” Opoola mentioned.
The DVC mentioned Fasina had enormously supported the reason for Islam on campus, saying, “He supported us vastly in realizing the dream of a mosque for the Muslims. He noticed us via the constructing of our mosque from the scratch to its completion and infrequently instances funded the undertaking along with his private cash until we accomplished the mosque. He has additionally offered us a brand new web site for a much bigger mosque at Oye campus.
“The VC additionally attends the Convocation Jumaat service bodily as a means of totally figuring out with us” he mentioned, and in addition cited the problem of gown code that accommodated feminine college students similar to sporting of hijab as embedded within the college students’ hand guide throughout Fasina’s tenure.
Opoola mentioned that the VC additionally appointed many Muslims into key positions “together with myself as DVC, Administration; the Registrar, Alhaji Mufutau lbrahim; the Dean of College students’ Affairs, Prof. Oyedokun Wasiu-Alli; the Director of FUOYE Medical Centre, Dr Olawale Musbau; the Director of the Directorate of Affiliations, Prof. Olaide Hammed; and Prof. Abiodun Ajiboye as Director of Newly established FUOYE’s Directorate of Trado-medical Merchandise”.
“Others appointments, he mentioned, included “Dr Modinat, Feminine Gender Desk Officer; Dr Ashiyanbi Serifat, Head of Division, Historical past and Worldwide Research; Dr Waheed Oladimeji, HOD Linguistics; Prof. Taofiq Nasir, HOD Spiritual Research; and Mr Salahudeen Teslim, as Particular Adviser to the VC on College students Affairs.
“There no is animosity between the Muslim neighborhood and the VC and different events in FUOYE the place all of us relate with one and different in peace and concord and like brothers and sisters on the campus regardless of our religion divides,” the DVC mentioned.
