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 ASUU leaders accused him of trying to make a political gain out of their misfortune.
Lagos State University chapter of the union, Dr. Adekunle
Idris, confirmed that Wada was chased out of the emergency ward, and
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.”
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