EKSU VC decries false rumours against him 

Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, Professor Sam Oye Bandele, has dismissed rumours making the rounds that he was involved in last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti beyond casting his vote.

Professor Oye Bandele said, while addressing the university’s management that it was not true that he was mobilising people for voting nor was it true that he did anything untoward during the elections as he voted in his community.

The Vice Chancellor said: “All the news making the rounds about me are all fabrications. They are not true. As a Vice Chancellor, I am duty-bound to be loyal to my principal, who is the Visitor to the university, and that what happens.”

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He explained that he was not a politician and did not involve himself in partisan politics, saying “on the day of election, all I did was to go to the polling station, cast my vote and went back home. Nothing more than that.”

He however lamented that “it was disturbing when people began to call me to tell me that they had read in the media that I was arrested, that the allegations were that I was mobilising 10,000 people to vote in EKSU and also that I was mobilising 10,000 people in my community.”

He said: “All these are not true because, even if I was at EKSU on the election day, there’s only one polling unit in the university and I don’t think there’s more than 500 people in one polling unit.

“Secondly, in my entire community, Ijesamodu, I wouldn’t know if we are up to 10,000 in population, let alone being able to have 10,000 voters to be mobilised. So, I wouldn’t know where all the falsehood were coming from and why.”