AAU Ekpoma Denies Buying Car for N61million

Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma has denied reports that it recently bought  a vehicle valued at N61million from its lean resources for her Governing Council chairman whereas the vehicle actually cost N54million.

According to a statement from the university, the Public Relations Officer, Mr. Edward Aihevba, “ the Governing Council Chairman’s car was purchased with the sum of N53.5 million and not N57 million or N61 million by the university and not by the Chairman”.

According to the statement, “Ambrose Alli University has experienced unparalleled infrastructural development, academic transformation, digital initiatives, research breakthroughs and dramatic repositioning of the University, through the leadership and co-operation of the council and management of the university.

“In the past four years, the university, under Prof. I. A Onimawo as Vice Chancellor, and Chief Lawson Omokhodion as Chairman of Council have built from scratch and commissioned seven befitting faculty buildings; embarked on the construction of students hostels, including two by Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and completed 87 other infrastructural projects that have spectacularly changed the face of Ambrose Alli University”.

It added that, “The university has abolished cultism and social vices in the university; established computer based examinations; electronic voting by students unions and set up and perfected a digital platform for e-examination, e-admission, e- registration, e-payments of fees, and dues and e-governance, with the cessation of the analog attitude and the enthronement of AAU as one of the first class Universities in the country.”

The statement added ,“The university under their leadership, has stepped up research activities with several research breakthroughs on record. We have one of the best libraries amongst Nigerian universities. Ambrose Alli University (AAU) has been totally transformed in all aspects and this should be the focus of any reporting.

“We have put all issues of conflict, imbroglio and disaffection behind us and all organs are jointly pressing forward for the achievement of the vision of the school. Ambrose Alli University has been recreated and repositioned as one of the ten best universities in Nigeria,” the statement concluded.