Disowns memo by former Registrar making Odoh a Professor

By Vincent Ujumadu

AUTHORITIES of the Federal University, Gusau have disowned a letter written by a former Registrar of the university, Ibrahim B. Kaura which stated that the sacked Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Benard Odoh, was promoted a professor by the university in 2015.

The Registrar and Secretary of Council of Federal University, Gusau, Yakubu A. Anivbassa, while reacting to media publications on the issue, said Odoh was never a tenure staff of the university.

The Registrar said: “While the Federal University Gusau does not want to be dragged into the ongoing internal politics and controversy surrounding the appointment of Dr. Odoh Bernard Odoh by the Governing Council of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, the institution as a responsible corporate citizen, with utmost respect for due process, transparency and accountability, has however, deemed it very imperative to issue this rejoinder to set the record straight in order to disabuse the minds of the public about the tissues of lies and misinformation contained in the newspaper publication under reference.

” The Federal University Gusau hereby states in clear and unambiguous terms that the so called letters of offer of tenure of appointment as Professor and confirmation of promotion to the post of Professor, dated 30″ April 2015 and 12° November 2015, being paraded by Dr. Odoh Bernard Ifeanyi and purported to be certified true copies hurriedly endorsed by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, former Registrar of the Federal University, dated November 8, 2024, six solid years after the latter left the services of the Federal University Gusau, are products of administrative fraud orchestrated by Dr. Odoh, working in cahoots with the former Vice Chancellor of the University and the Registrar, as there is no official record of Dr. Odoh’s employment in the custody of the University.

“Further proof of the desperation to perpetuate such illegality is the impersonation and usurpation of the duties of the current Registrar of the University by the former Registrar, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, who procured a fake stamp to certify Dr. Odoh’s equally fake employment documents as true copies on November 8, 2024, six years after his disengagement from the University.

“For purposes of emphasis, the requirements for certification of public documents are guided by law. In fact, section 104 of the Evidence Act, 2011 clearly itemized the essential requirements necessary for a document to be regarded as a certified copy as follows:

(1) The legal fees must be paid , (2) There must be certification at the foot of the document that it is a certified true copy of the original document in question, (3) The document must be dated and signed by the officer responsible for issuing the document with his name and title of his office and,

(4) The document must be sealed.

“A careful perusal of the above requirements and their juxtaposition against the certification of Dr. Odoh’s documents by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura clearly shows that the so called certified true copies fell short of the provisions of Section 104 of the Evidence Act, 2011 and are therefore, not legally tenable. It must be stated that having left the services of the University in 2018, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, the former Registrar of the Federal University Gusau, has no locus to certify any official document for and on behalf of the University.

” Therefore, the so called certified true copies of Dr. Odoh’s documents relating to his alleged employment as endorsed by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura on November 8, 2024, are illegal, criminal, null and void and of no ef fect, whatsoever.

“Finally, the Management of the Federal University Gusau hereby declares unequivocally that Dr. Odoh Bernard Ifeanyi  is not and has never been a tenure staff of the University, let alone being confirmed as a Professor by the institution.

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“Whatever claim to the contrary by Dr. Odoh is nothing but the antics of a drowning man who is hell-bent on using the good name of the Federal University Gusau, to give vent to his desperate ambition to become the Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, through subterfuge”.