The Federal Government has officially demanded the authority of the
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) to supply the academic details of
lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, following the controversy over his
completion of his degree programme in Geography at the University.
A
top official of ABU, Zaria, who pleaded anonymity, said that “the
University is already compiling the records of Senator Dino Melaye for
the Government that demanded the immediate release to Government and the
University will respond soon.”
According to the official, “nobody
is in doubt if Senator Melaye attended the University, but what people
are saying is whether he completed his course of study and the
university will make the relevant information available,” adding that,
“to the best of my knowledge, the Senator was on this campus and read a
course of study for which I think he graduated between 1997 and 1998 as
the case may be.
“These details can always be found in the list of
graduating students of Geography in either of those years as the case
may be, but for me, I think he ran a programme and I should think he
successfully ended up in either of those years I mentioned.”
Besides,
a Student Union Government (SUG) official activist and departmental
mate of Senator Melaye, who also pleaded anonymity, said, “the Senator
and I were in Geography Department and two of us were also officials of
the National Union of Geography Students at ABU.”
He remarked,
“while Dino was the National President of Geography Department, I was
the Assistant Secretary General, I presided over his impeachment during
the controversy leading to his ousting from that office.
“Let me
tell you, Dino was a radical student activist in campus. I will give
that to him and at a point he was confrontational to the establishment
in the University. And at last, the institution did everything possible
to bring him close and later became the eyes of the authority on
campus.”
According to him, “I can attest that Senator Dino
actually completed a course of study in Geography in 1998; whether he
had carry-over in some courses that were later waved is what I cannot
say.”
“I think Dino later graduated from ABU, Zaria with a Third
class or Pass. I am sure of that. Let anybody not deceive you that he
did not study or graduate in ABU. Go and find out, he did. He is
stubborn, that I will give to him. And I think that is what is still
trailing him in the Senate,” he said.
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