Professor Ediga Agbo has been appointed as the acting Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, Benue State.
His appointment was sequel to the suspension of Professor Innocent Ujah, the pioneer Vice Chancellor of Nigeria’s maiden university of health sciences.
A source who confided in Nigerian Anchor disclosed that the Governing Council of the University, at a meeting in Otukpo, suspended Professor Ujah, whose tenure as VC was due to elapse in early November 2024, with immediate effect.
Announcing his replacement with an acting VC, it was disclosed that Professor Ujah’s suspension was connected to sundry reasons bothering on insubordination and dereliction of duty.
Our source hinted that Professor Ujah’s suspension was due, mainly, to the allegation of “Failing to respond to several memos from Pro-Chancellor requesting for audited accounts of the University, inventory of mobile and immobile assets.”
Another reason adduced for the suspension was his “Appointing and publicly announcing a Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) without the consent of the Governing Council.”
He was also accused of “Travelling abroad without the permission of the Council and not returning to the university on a date contained in a letter he directed a Deputy Registrar of the University to transmit to the Council after he had travelled.”
Professor Ujah was also accused of “Failing to notify the Governing Council of his retirement from the university system on 6th of November, 2024 after much persuasion from the Pro-Chancellor to do so.”
Professor Agbo, the acting Vice Chancellor was confirmed as professor of Microbiology in 2003 at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi.
