The management of Federal University of Gusau, Zamfara State, has outrightly disowned the professorship letter being paraded by the sacked Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Bernard Odoh describing it as ‘administrative fraud’.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that Odoh who was sacked barely three weeks after his appointment, had claimed that he was appointed as a visiting professor at FUGUS in 2014 and was later promoted to full professor of applied geophysics at the institution in 2015.
Addressing the matter in an emergency press conference on Thursday, the institution’s Vice Chancellor Prof. Mu’azu Abubakar categorically said the documents paraded by the sacked VC, which he claimed the university issued were products of fraud.
He said, “The management of the Federal University Gusau hereby declares unequivocally that Dr. Odoh Bernard Ifeanyi is not and has never been a tenure staff of the university, let alone being confirmed as a professor by the institution. Whatever claim to the contrary by Dr. Odoh is nothing but the antics of a drowning man who is a hell-bent on using the good name of the Federal University Gusau, to give vent to his desperate ambition to became the Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe, through subterfuge.”
A rejoinder by the institution alos claimed that Odoh connived with the former Registrar of the Federal University, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, to hurriedly produce a letter of ‘confirmation of promotion to the post of professor’.
It reads, “The Federal University Gusau hereby states in clear and unambiguous terms that the so called letters of tenure as professor and confirmation of promotion to the post of professor, dated 3oth April 2015 and 12th November, 2015, being paraded by Dr. Odoh Bernard Ifeanyi and purported to be certified true copies hurriedly endorsed by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, former Registrar of the Federal University, dated November 8, 2024, six years after the latter left the services of Federal University Gusau, are products of administrative fraud.
”The fraud was orchestrated by Odoh, working in cahoots with the former Vice Chancellor of the University and Registrar, as there is no official record of Dr. Odoh’s employment in the custody of the university.
”Further proof of the desperation to perpetrate such illegality is the impersonation and usurpation of the duties of the current Registrar of the university by the former Registrar, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, who procured a fake stamp to certfiy Dr. Odoh’s equally fake employment documents as true copies on November 8, 2024, six years after his disengagement from the university,” the institution said.
The rejoinder signed by the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Yakubu Anivbassa, noted that the requirements for certification of public documents are guided by law, adding that legal fees must be paid and there must be certification at the footer stating that it is a certified true copy of the original document in question.
