Rector, Federal Polytechnic Wannune, Dr Tyover Ashirga
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi –
Rector Federal Polytechnic Wannune, Dr Tyover Ashirga has clarified the recent sack of the deputy rector of the polytechnic, Dr. Doris Iorchir, which generated tension at the institution.
Addressing journalists on Monday at NUJ house in Makurrdi, the rector of the polytechnic explained that no management staff or member of council of the polytechnic had anything against the sacked deputy rector.
Dr. Ashirga disclosed that the former deputy rector had no documents to present when she was asked to bring them even as all members are expected to bring their document for confirmation.
The rector informed that her actions and conduct amounted to gross insubordination which propelled the council to sack her.
According to Dr. Ashirga, the petition she wrote and even claimed to remain the deputy rector of the Polytechnic could not hold water as he explained that even the things that bothered on alleged fraud were carried out before he came to the polytechnic and insisted that the council has sacked the Deputy Rector.
Ashirga also noted with satisfaction that among the polytechnics established by the former late President Muhammadu Buhari led administration, Federal Polytechnic Wannune has gone far above the other ones in terms of development both in structures and academics.
He disclosed that the polytechnic started with only accountancy and statistics but the institution presently has about 24 departments.
He revealed that about 70 brilliant young lecturers of the polytechnic have been given scholarship to improve themselves for better services even as most of the lecturers have been encouraged to go into research which he said was important in academics.
The rector, who stated that he inherited 86 students but has over 2,000 students now, expressing the joy that the National Board for Technical Education has approved 8 courses for Higher National Diploma.
He assured that the management of the Polytechnic was worried about the issue of hostel accommodation but believed that the Polytechnic would soon provide accommodation to about five thousand students.
The rector, further, disclosed that the polytechnic has zero tolerance for cultism, stressing that already about two students were expelled on a account of cultism, insisting that anyone found in cultism in the infant polytechnic would not be spared.
