UNILORIN Council chairman’s death confounding, Egbewol – VC-designate

By Adeleye Kunle

The Vice Chancellor-designate of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has described the death of the Pro-Chancellor, Chairman Governing Council of the institution, Malam Abidu Rafindadi Yazid as confiding, confusing and unbelievable.

He expressed shock over the sudden death of the University’s Governing Council Chairman, saying, “The news was confounding, confusing and totally unbelievable.”

In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday, Professor Egbewole disclosed that his shock stemmed from the fact that only a day to Mallam Yazid’s demise, they had a prolonged phone chart in which they “discussed extensively on the need to organise a befitting valedictory programme in honour of the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sulyman Age Abdulkareem.”

The Vice Chancellor-designate, whose appointment was announced by the late Mallam Yazid on September 8, 2022, said, “The late Chairman graciously approved my proposal”, which, he described as “another act of the Chairman’s magnanimity” but which, regrettably, he would no longer be around to consummate “as the will of Allah has been done in this case.”

Professor Egbewole, who is also a member of the Governing Council, said, “I have had the very rare opportunity of sitting in Council with the late Chairman and wish to put on record the way he conducted proceedings depicting extreme candour, courage of conviction and always putting the University of Ilorin first