The Sub Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr.
Tajudeen Kolawole Ajiboye in an interview with
Lade's Signatory today 15th March, 2017 said he
never slapped the Students Union president,
Comrade sobowale Lukman olawale.
Lade's signatory reached out to the sub Dean to
get his own side of the story.
Read excerpts from the interview below...
What do you have to Say about the issue on
ground now, as regards you slapping the
Students Union president?
That day, my students were supposed to write an
exam CAC204,and i was in my office when i saw
my students roaming around and had not written
the exam they're supposed to write for 2pm
around 4pm.
As someone who has the interest of the
students at heart, I left my office to go to the
CBT centre to make enquiries about what was
going on and the reason why the students had
not started writing their exams.
On getting there with the Dean of the faculty of
engineering and some other lecturers in the
faculty, we were discussing with the Deputy vice
chancellor Academics, Professor Ijaya.
Then Eminent was there waiting to be attended
to by the secretary of the CBT centre when he
was asked to move back by Dr. Abdulraman of
the faculty of engineering.
And when eminent tried explaining to the lecturer
that he is the students union president, the
lecturer told him to 'get out' and it was at this
point that eminent demanded to be respected as
the students union president.
I saw the two of them arguing and went there to
see what was going on, on getting there I saw a
student arguing with the lecturer and collected
his ID card without even knowing he was the
students Union president. It was in the process
of removing his ID card from his neck that my
hand hit his face. I never slapped Him.
It was after this that the SU president (Eminent)
came back to meet me to say I slapped him and
I told him I never slapped him.
After which staffs of the CBT, the DVC
academics and others intervened in the whole
situation and everything was settled and the
exam continued.
It was when I got home at night, I was confused
and surprised when I saw how the whole issue
which had been settled earlier had turned out
and I started receiving calls from everyone.
When asked what he would do about what the
Students' Union is demanding from him, he said;
I owe no one an apology and I Even deserve an
apology from them.
They have no right to make any demands from
me. It is an aberration. I was there on behalf of
the students and to represent the interest of the
students. If I was in my office, none of this
would have happened.
I even called the DVC Academics, Professor Ijaya
that are they now saying we should not correct
any student that is misbehaving.
When asked what he would say to the SU
president when he meets him, he said;
He's my son and I even called him yesterday
already.
He should forget whatever' happened, its part of
leadership and heaven will not fall.
The president of the faculty of engineering,
Adebisi Semiu Olatunde AKA Da Bozz also asked
for the perspective of the Sub Dean as regards
engineering students doing CBT.
The Sub Dean said;
CBT should be structured in a way that it attends
to the needs of each department and also
shortage of man power also affects this because
results must be ready within two weeks after
exam.
The faculty is looking into reducing the number
of CBT exams engineering students do.
The management is the problem and not the
CBT, the number of students do not match the
structures we have in the school which is the
root of most of the problems we face at the CBT
centre. They should provide materials the
students need for a particular course.
Tijani bakare, a 500 level student of the faculty
also said, we the students are with our sub dean,
we support him because He was there because
of the students.

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