Postponed SUG Election: Hoodlums Lock Osun Poly School Gates

….Deny Lecturers, Students Access

 

Some yet-to-be identified hoodlums have locked the Entrance Gates of the Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, preventing students and lecturers assess to the institution.

Placards with different inscriptions, including “We say no to security report excuses. Tope Abiola has compromised, he must go”, and similar inscriptions on placards were placed on the school gate.

The situation has led to concerns among students of the institution.

According to sources, persons whose motive is yet to be revealed invaded the institution during night-hour and locked the school gate.

In an interview with Osun Defender correspondent, the President of Faculty of Science, Ashiwel Samuel, expressed shock over the development.

He noted that “At exactly 6:50am, I received a call from a student who informed me that the school gate was locked, on getting to the school entrance, I confirmed that the gate was locked, and some placards were placed on the gate. I asked security officers of the school and they said some armed men came in the night and locked the school, but the security officers did not give us detailed information.”

A former chairman of the institution’s Independent Students’ Electoral Commission (ISEC), Oseni Olaitan, expressed disappointment over the locked gate, stating that “It is very disheartening that students are locked out of the school.

“I have called the Dean, students affairs in order to understand what is going on but he did not respond. However, I think all this is as a result of the suspended Students’ Union Government election by the management,” he said.

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Also, the National Association of Polytechnic Students’ Director of Projects, Comrade Adetunji Francis, suggested that the locked gate is as a result of the Students’ Union Government election that was last Friday suspended by management of the institution.

Adetunji further asserted that “It is obvious that the students want SUG to be reinstated, management of the institution should do the needful.”

Effort to the reaction of the Dean, students’ Affairs of the institution have proved abortive, as at the time of filling this report.