The Alumni Association of the Osun State University has described the statement credited to the Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Professor Lapode Popoola that he inherited a university where "anything goes" as ridiculous, deceitful,  and highly unacceptable.

The ex-students of the institution called on the Popoola, whose tenure ends in less than two weeks to immediately retract his statement and apologize to the founding fathers of the institution who laboured hard to build the ivory tower since 2007.

Popoola while granting an interview last week, said “I didn't inherit a university in the real sense. It should be published that the university I inherited was an 'anything goes' setting. The academic culture was completely missing, commercialisation of everything was the norm. Corruption was the order of the day…the students were lawless, they were involved in cultism and they were always in the news.”

The statement signed by the Alumni Association President and Secretary, Kabir Oriola and Abdulbasit Abubakar, differed with Popoola and listed the achievements and laurels won by the ex-students of the school before his (Popoola's) appointment in 2016.

The statement, tagged, "Setting the Records Straight; A Rejoinder to Professor Labode Popoola, the Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University", the Alumni Association said the Institution has since 2007 been a world-class varsity, not only in Nigeria but globally. The queried

The statement partly read, "We wish to state that this statement is very deceitful, preposterous and an attempt to disparage the great efforts of the founding fathers and past stakeholders of the university and as well, the quality of the alumni of the university, many of whom have distinguished themselves in their respective chosen career paths across the world.

"However, we wish to state categorically that as a very respectable association, The alumni Association is not willing to join issue with Professor Popoola, rather, we are interested in setting the records straight, and educate the general public against professor Popoola’s ill-conceived statement targeted at denigrating our highly prestigious Alma Mata.

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