National Executive Council (NEC) of the University of Ilorin Alumni Association has denied a submission made by one Professor Abdulrasaq Kilani that he is the National President of the association, insisting that “he is not our president”.
The association’s NEC, consisting of the National Executive Committee and the Chapter Chairmen, in a statement, signed by the National Vice President 2 of the association, Mr, Yomi Olumuyide, in reaction to Kilani’s claim, said his submission was “unguarded and misdirected.”
The Alumni NEC in a statement by Mr. Yomi Olumuyide for the executive and Dr. Segun Ipinniwa for the Chapter Chairmen, described Kilani’s interference with the activities of the Alumni National President, Dr Stephen Olawale Fasakin, as “impersonation”, saying ”the submission by the said Mr Kilani can be viewed as that of a child who lost his way running errands for some community tyrants.”
The statement said: “Dr Stephen Olawale Fasakin and his executive committee team remains the authentic apex body of the association as the purported congress held by the Kilani group sometime this year to appoint him, (Kilani), National President and some other faceless persons as the executive committee was a mere kindergarten drama and a demonstration of crass ignorance of law as a case with Suit No: KWS/92/2021 involving the association is still pending before a competent court of law in Ilorin, whereby, the status quo ante bellum is still retained.”
According to the NEC, Kilani and his group lacked adequate knowledge of the history and the current state of affairs in the association to have not known or be properly briefed about the said court case “and its implications for him, his group and those behind the wheel driving Kilani and his group to an accident waiting to happen.”
The NEC reiterated; “we have said it repeatedly and everyone can start to see it now that Mr Kilani and his group are not proven members of the University of Ilorin Alumni Association, but mere errand boys used by certain craftors to fetch their burnt chestnuts out of a raging fire. Surely, their fingers will get burnt as they have allowed themselves to be led into the race of an un-girth runner. They should start to get ready to face the wrath of the law in due cause.
