The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded that Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna, have his degree certificates revoked immediately.
El-Rufai earned a first-class degree in Quantity Surveying from ABU in 1976.
The resolution was reached at the end of the Union’s congress meeting on March 2, 2022, according to Comrade Hussein Abdullahi, Secretary of the Union, which represents lecturers.
ASUU was surprised, he said, that the governor could forcefully seize ABU’s land in Mando, Kaduna, an action he described as a “utter disregard of an order by a competent court of law.”
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“He forcibly took over land belonging to Ahmadu Bello University, a historic and premier university in the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” Abdullahi said.
The Congress also decided to “visit the Mando College of Agriculture and Animal Science, where the lands are located, to register its protest over the illegal land seizure,” according to Abdullahi.
He said, “We have issued an advisory to relevant organs of Ahmadu Bello University to formally withdraw the degree certificates awarded to Nasir Elrufai by the University because his many actions are in violation of the requirements in character and learning deemed worthy of an ABU degree award.”
As of the time of filing this report, the governor had not responded to the development.
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