Ado Poly Shut Down, Bans Students’ Union Activities

The Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti has been shut down following a violent protest by the Students’ Union.

The school’s authority noted that all students are to embark on a compulsory one week break as academic activities have been temporarily suspended.

The authority also revealed that the school’s Students’ Union Government has been banned with immediate effect.

It could be recalled that SUG embarked on a protest on Friday on allegations that the school’s authority was trying to impose its stooges as leaders of the students’ body during its election held on Thursday.

The institution’s Director of Protocol, Information and Public Relations, Mr Adeyemi Adejolu, confirmed the development in a press statement on Sunday in Ado Ekiti.

Adejolu debunked the allegation that the school’s authority tried to impose its candidate on the students’ body.

The statement reads in part “The attention of management of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, has been drawn to insinuations suggesting that the students’ protest of Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, was caused by an alleged imposition of candidates in the students’ union elections, which held the previous day.

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“For the avoidance of any doubt, it has never been in the tradition of the institution’s management to impose candidates under any guise in the electoral process of all unions at the polytechnic.

“Also for over two decades now, students’ union electoral processes are run and conducted by the students themselves through their accredited representatives called APECO.

“The management only engages in monitoring the process by ensuring that the rules set for they set for themselves are strictly adhered to, under a well-secured atmosphere.”

Adejolu said management was, therefore, surprised at the last unprovoked protest and unverified allegation of imposition of candidate. Adding that, all academic activities are therefore, suspended temporarily.

He said “Management has consequently affirmed that all students resident on campus should promptly vacate their accommodation on a week compulsory break.”