Latest On ASUU Strike: 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.
He should have stopped after the incident occured, not visit
after several hours! What do you think?