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Embattled Acting VC Professor Joseph Ikechebelu has returned to his former office as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
Special Adviser to the Vice Chancellor on Special Duties and Public Relations, Dr. Emmanuel Ojukwu made the disclosure at a press conference on Monday.
Ikechebelu appointed on acting capacity barely two months ago had been on the saddle untill last Saturday when the Amb Greg Mbadiwe led council sacked him and installed Prof Carol Umobi as the Acting Vice Chancellor.
However, University management, in a statement by its Registrar, Samuel Ufoh, said there was no decision taken during the alleged failed council meeting and nobody has been appointed apart from Ikechebelu.
According to Ufoh, the management said the status quo ante remains as the council meeting ended inconclusively.
But speaking to reporters on Monday, Ojukwu said the University’s Governing Council has appointed Professor Carol Arinze-Umobi as the new Acting Vice Chancellor, while the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) will be filled soon.
The latest development followed leadership struggle last weekend that led the Governing Council directing Ikechebelu to hand over to Umobi or face disciplinary actions.
Normalcy appeared to have been restored in the university with a stabilized leadership with Ikechebelu’s acceptance to return to his former position.
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Prof. Ugochinyere, destiny has finally located the lead the University Community at that level as its Vice Chancellor! This is a moment to bridge and build bridges across all strata within the institution ok.
Your pragmatism has paid off, your resilience has yielded the expected dividend, your administrative ingenuity has manifested itself in this struggle; your amiable gait has stood you out among your peers especially those fellow gender who have holding ill feelings against your rising to stardom; those fellows who have been nurturing the crass notion of what could a mere woman of knife and hoe give administratively in that upper echelon can now see that Godhas a way of recompensing the one whose stock in trade is pull him down! Nobody dares God to change the course of destiny or the hand of the clock to go anti clockwise!
Carol, you’re a child of destiny! Now, you have been placed above your contemporaries and should in humility touch lives even though you’re noted or known as a pompous and boastful woman and legal luminary who prides herself before her folks. Great is the Lord! The Lord is your strength as I have no doubt in my mind if you will deliver on your mandate because you will show in humility using subtle administrative principles in achieving your set goals.CONGRATULATION UGO. OGOM, WELDONE AND TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS EQUALLY EXPECTED. AD MULTUS ANNOS! THIS IS COMING IN THE MONTH FOR THE COMMEMORATION S.A.D , THE LEGAL PUNDIT! MMUTAPUTAIFE PAULINUS CHIDI EZEKWE CHRONICLED IT.
Corrigendum, …even though you’re not noted or known as a pompous and boastful woman and legal luminary…Ezekwe Paulinus Chidi