The alumni of the University of Osun State, UNIOSUN, located in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, Nigeria have rejected the recent renaming of the university by the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola.

Last week, Aregbesola renamed the institution in honour of the late Cicero of Esa-Oke and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, during the institution’s fourth and fifth combined convocation.

But the alumni declared the renaming of the institution as immaterial at this point in time, urging Aregbesola to reverse the action.

They are equally considering the option of approaching a court of competent jurisdiction in the land to seek redress on the subject matter if Governor Aregbesola refuses to reverse the action.

According to them, Aregbesola just took the decision unilaterally without considering the interest of all the stakeholders of the university.

In a statement signed by the President of the Alumni Association, Mr. Oluwatosin Abikanlu and the Secretary-General, Mr. Otunde Adebowale, the alumni said the renaming of the university after the former governor old Oyo state had generated reactions where some people see it as a means to score cheap political popularity and bring confusion into the system, while some people, particularly members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, see the action as a welcome development.

The alumni argued that the late Chief Bola Ige had nothing to do with the establishment of the university aside being a political leader in the state before he died
in December 2001 noting further that the acronym of the new name, BIU, had clashed with the Benson Idahosa University, BIU.

They alleged that Aregbesola had not funded the university for the past two and half years aside the money raised by the university management and help from Federal Government agencies like Tetfund.

They noted that renaming any institution
at this point in time when the economy was biting every sector of the country is a misplacement of priority.www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/13/uniosun-alumni-to-sue-aregbesola-over-varsitys-name-change/

Lol....pointless argument.

no need of going to court on this issue now well they want to behave like unilag alumni hmm

Seriously pointless, the alumni are playing politics with the governor. They are barely 5 years old and don't want change of name, what if it was the name used from th unset.
This case is totally different from that of Unilag as Unilag is already well known around the world and it will be an error throwing decades of Built name and legacy into the bin just because u want a change of name.

kolaaderin:
Seriously pointless, the alumni are playing politics with the governor. They are barely 5 years old and don't want change of name, what if it was the name used from th unset.
This case is totally different from that of Unilag as Unilag is already well known around the world and it will be an error throwing decades of Built name and legacy into the bin just because u want a change of name.

abi ooooo they should just leave the government and not dragging them to court of law ooo. it will waste their time .