[ASUU Update]: Angry ASUU Leaders Chase Governor Wada Out Of Hospital

Angry leaders of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities allegedly
chased away the Governor of Kogi
State, Captain Idris Wada (retd.)
from the emergency ward of the
Lokoja General Hospital on
Tuesday.

Wada had gone to the hospital to
visit their injured colleague, Dr.
Ngozi Ilo, and commiserate with
them over the death of their
former President, Prof. Festus
Iyayi, in an accident involving his
convoy and an ASUU vehicle on
Tuesday.

The Chairman, University of Benin chapter of ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina; and the Benin Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Sunny Iyalo, had minor injuries and were therefore not admitted into the hospital.

The ASUU leaders, including the
National President, Dr. Biodun
Ogunyemi; the Ibadan Zonal
Coordinator, Dr. Nassir Adesola;
the Chairman, Lagos State
University chapter of the union, Dr.
Adekunle Idris; Monye-Emina;
Iyalo and lecturers from the
Federal University Lokoja however
sent the governor away from the
hospital's emergency ward. Their
grouse was Wada's late response
to the accident and the uncaring
attitude he allegedly displayed
towards the union leaders involved
in the accident. They also accused
him of trying to make a political
gain out of their misfortune.
Idris, who confirmed that Wada
was chased out of the emergency
ward, said, "We are surprised
that a state governor could resort
to telling lies because contrary to
the claim by his spokesperson that
he showed care towards our
colleagues, he did not. "Somebody
that did not stop after his convoy
killed our leader; somebody that
did not come to the hospital until
some minutes to 5pm(on Tuesday)
after the accident that happened
around 11am could not be said to
be caring.

"That was why we chased him out
of the emergency ward of the
hospital and we also prevented him
from seeing Prof. Iyayi's corpse in
the mortuary. "We are not happy
with the fact that he came very late
to the hospital and the fact that
when he came, his press crew
attempted to take photograph and
video record of Dr. Ilo, who is our
national welfare secretary. We
stopped them because that was
the height of insensitivity.
"Somebody that could not provide
us with an ambulance cannot be
said to be caring. We had to call
UNIBEN for an ambulance that took
Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching
Hospital while our colleagues from
the Federal University, Lokoja, with
the assistance of the vice-
chancellor, gave us the ambulance
that was used to convey the
remains of Prof. Iyayi to Benin."
Idris added that though Wada left
the hospital "like a gentleman,"
some of his overzealous security
aides tried to be naughty.

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