Students of Prince Abubakar Audu University, PAAU, Anyigba, Kogi State, have slammed the governorship candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Dino Melaye for allegedly describing the state-owned institution as a ‘glorified secondary school’.
Melaye reportedly made the claim when he featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
Addressing a press conference in Anyigba on Thursday, the President of the university’s Student Union Government, SUG, Comrade David Monday condemned Melaye’s comments.
While calling on political gladiators to leave the students out of politics, the SUG President admonished the the general public to ignore the tag Melaye gave the institution.
He said, “It could equally cast aspersion on thousands of our graduates working across the globe and others who are pursuing their postgraduate programs in Nigeria and abroad.
“Worse still is the psycho-social effect it may have on our unemployed graduates who are competitively competing for jobs out there,
“A state university that has achieved significantly in training of competent manpower working across the globe with a high pedigree in research and community service would not have achieved such glamorous status by an empty, sudden and spontaneous flight to stardom.”
The SUG President noted that PAAU, which he said is amongst 26 universities in Nigeria that have 100 percent full accreditation, with over 150 scholars of professional cadre, a state-of-the-art library, laboratories, and lecture theatres, cannot be a glorified secondary school.
‘Our university not a glorified secondary school’ – PAAU students fire back at Dino Melaye