For 64 Years, Nobody from Enugu North Senatorial Zone Has Been VC of UNN - Nwodo
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Our people are beginning to feel that this is a form of marginalisation. Enugu North Zone where Nsukka is part of, has over 200 professors and in the last four efforts to find a Vice Chancellor they have come second on the list
Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo
Former Governor of Enugu State
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I just like the way he's so calm to answer the questions.
Me too
Same here very matured, i hope abati,rufai, and d lady will find their voice if it was a northerner clamouring for same....
I swear I love the man's calmness and maturity in the face of Rufais obvious provocation They too are saying they've got qualified candidate professor
In as much they tried to provoke him, he remained calm and collected.
This is a greedy clamour when weighed against the background that the town of Nsukka was chosen to host the university by an Onitsha man from Anambra State, Rt. Hon Nnamdi Azikiwe. I am impressed by the positions taken by the anchors of the programme to lambast and criticise the studio guest for pursuing this nativist and clannish interest. Nsukka people have been VCs in other universities in Nigeria including Michael Ọkpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State. This is a childish and primordial sentiment that bodes ill for our ivory tower.
Thanks bro. Black race thinking process is disgusting. We ruin our continent through all these primordial sentiments and ran abroad to do menial jobs.
I commend the man's calmness. Any other person may have been provoked that the Arise team aren't getting the point he was trying to make. However, like Rufai said, it's still nativist. But then I think it'll be unfair to totally ignore his point. After over 60 years of hosting the university, consideration should be made in that regard if and only if there's anyone from that zone or area qualified enough to to be VC of the prestigious UNN. Whoever feels he/she is qualified must do what's necessary to be appointed and not just rely on the fact that he/she is from Enugu North. The issue of zone is pointless at best.
You spoke with sense and dignity my dear... Chief Nwodo is an elderly man already, so he fears no falling again. No body can intimidate him
So you agree he has no point because they are always considered and have come second.
This mindset obvious is responsible in the decay in our universities!
I strongly disagree. The Vice chancellorahip of UNN in the past 16yrs have all been from Enugu state. This I know because I schooled there until 2013. From Prof Nebo, Batho, Ozumba to Igwe, are all from Enugu state. If they start doing by zone, how long till they shift it to family name?
@@Chicharito413 You are wrong on this. Ozumba and Igwe are from Anambra
People should allow the institutions to be independent. How does where the VC come from affect the university? Nwodo picked a wrong course. He shouldn't have flied that kite.
What is wrong with us in this country? Are we really caused? What is the difference between Enugu North, south or east? Just a geographical creation and we are dividing ourselves for this? As long as we play the game of our turn, we will go nowhere..
The big man says he has no apology to represent his constituency. You people should take it like that
Aptly
After over 60 years, it’s a fair argument. Thank you your excellency for your contribution. It’s ignorant to think that VC appointments in Nigeria is solely from a meritocracy standpoint.
Very true
Very true
The man should work towards improved funding of the University by private endowments, grants, and donations, not start this ridiculous son of the soil syndrome. Sir Nwodo should be better than this.
This is quality of people that leading my people in Igboland .I m sorry, Dr Okweselise Nwodo has no national quality leadership . Where is Pdp he claimed he led.. Pdp is a shadow of itself. Until people like this fade away, we cannot fresh breadth of good leadership. Proud of Stoking divisive ethnocentric ideals at expense of nationalism at this level development ?. His father enjoyed the goodies as member of parliament , he enjoyed same national booties as Governor, also chairman of Pdp ... Let us move as Nation and drop them .
Everything for Naija na enthincity. Politicians don finally reduced Nigeria to nothing. What a country!
VC position zoned? SICK.
Absolutely,,,100 people everywhere. Zone presidency, zone governor, zone senator, zone this zone that.....none talking about meritocracy and excellence
This politics is the reason why UNN is a shadow of itself. Less than a glorified secondary sch! Dilapidated buildings and hostels, low quality education, all manner of atrocities etc. The present Vc was born,bred and "buttered" in Nsukka, married an Nsukka woman, speaks, wines and dines with Nsukka pple. Is he saying he os not Nsukka enough? Nsukka pple and their timid/inferiority complex. More than Half the staff are from Nsukka. Some positions are specifically reserved for Nsukka indigenes and u dare not give another else na jazz dem go take follow you. Its a Federal University as such, anyone can be VC they should stop this emotional tantrums.
God bless you Dr nwodo ❤
UNN is not a State university. No Ebonyi person has been VC of UNN too.
There was a distinguished VC from the North called Umaru Shehu at the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Imagine the utterances of the old man. The same man said igbo built all the major cities in Nigeria. This has nothing to do with old age as people alluded but he is just showing his true picture as an ethnic jingoist.
He said Igbos contributed to the development of many states in Nigeria and I think that's not lie
@@onyewuchiprince6525, are you saying other ethic groups have never contributed to the development of Nigeria? Are you kidding me???
@moham.279 , I tired. He should go and listen to the video again. He said Igbo created Lagos, portharcout etc. The young ones misbehave when elders feed them with wrong stories.
@@moham.279the question now is what have your tribe contributed in other regions in Nigeria. You just hate the truth
@@nurudeenabioye4439Take it or leave it,it's incontrovertible fact that igbos contributed in no small measure,infact higher than any other tribe in Nigeria in building the most meggar cities in Nigeria like,Lagos,Abuja,Kano and Portharcourt Can you tell me the tribe you come from,which city outside ur region they helped or contributed in building, Secondly or thirdly,I listened to Babajide Kolade Otitoju some few years ago on TVC's journalists hangout,and they're talking about Rochas Okorocha's investments in Abuja, when he was having problems with the EFCC,and do you know what Babajide said? He said that the people of South West that's the Yorubas didn't know that Abuja will be developed as it is now,and that's why they didn't have much investments there 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Then I laughed in Germany laughter(làchen) That's one of the excuses of lazy cocoons who are afraid of taking risks,igbos are risks bearers,and that's one of the good qualities of business people
Mr Nwodo I am ashamed of you. We Igbos are complaining of marginalization and we are still players. The same is applicable in admissions and appointments of students leadership.
This madness in Nigeria for the son of the soil to occupy position in public place and sadly now in our universities is because we do not care about the productivity but and the upliftment of the public institution but the perks of office and the associted corrupt practices. While i will support the appointment of any indigenous people to occupy public post such as VC of their local areas but making it an entitlement is what has killed excellence in our academic institution.
Michigan State University partnered with UNN, not the University of Michigan
God forbid
That's correct. It was Nnamdi Aziikiwe that went to Michigan State University to bring the professors to help him develop a university when he conceived the idea of a university in Nsukka in the early 50s. I agree. I was surprised when Okwy Nwodo was saying University of Michigan, because I know the story
for what it's worth I think an Nsukka Indigene should have been a VC in 64 years of the University, even if it's once. It's a prestige for the host community to have one of their sons to head the University, even when the idea may sound nativist.
You have all reduced our university system to our turn stage! Really!
Can igbo become vc in the northern university or even in yoruba of the last 40 years ago?
Many of the federal Universities in Nigeria are run down. It has very little to do with indigienship but with lack of depth in excellent leadership qualities. The difficult situation the common man has faced at the hands of politicians and traditional rulers who are drawn from their localities is a lesson for all. The common man should weigh the demands of their leaders. What they need is an institution that is worth its weight in gold irrespective of who is the Vice Chancellor. An academician who wishes to be the VC should gain the support of his peers by demonstrating excellent leadership qualities. Going the route of the "son of the soil" to campaign for the VC's office does not portray him as a good leader.
Worthy case presented by Dr Nwodo
Intraethnic marginalization. Nigeria is a comedy sitcom
Thank you Dr Nwaodo. U are making a good point
I am a student of UNN & how I wish that the Nsukka person becomes the next VC. However,such person must be qualified and follow due process.
MILD SENILITY AND OLD AGE POMPOSITY characteristic of aging politicians. This is the same man who expects Igbo-phobic Nigeria to be clapping when he says that Igbos built the major cities in Nigeria and own 70% of the hospitality business in Abuja. Which is not totally true. Igbos are all over the federation doing small and medium-sized busines but big-time industries and businesses are in the hands of Northerners and Westerners. What these ones do in silence, Igbo man goes to shout it at the mountain top. Ethnocentricity remains the order of the day in Nigeria but nobody expects our elite to go advertising it publicly.
Mention those big industries in the hands of the West and North, Igbos are still more in those areas except where Dangote has been monopolized.
Is there any where in Nigeria where such things are not nativist? Can the anchors say so in the North for instance?
There is nothing wrong in bringing a vice chancellor from that senatorial zone just to allow peace to reign, what of if they begin to demand for land front the university?
You guys should make an investigation of his request as a journalist, for example unizik and FUTO can they allow Enugu person to be VC . Please make an enquiry not attacking chief nwaodo There's a cabal in UNN that determines who is going to be the next VC I think. This is the reason why nsukka is crying loudly and demanding VC position, because they have qualified candidates .
These journalists seem like they don't investigate things. As the man was talking they could have used their phones to Google and see the ethnicity of VCs in other federal universities.
That is the kind of response you will get from Ms Attama, a typical nwa Nsukka, very clannish in their reasoning as well. The presenter rightly said that if not for the university, nobody will even know about Nsukka now. The university brought so much development in Nsukka. Not less than 80% of the staff and students of UNN are from Nsukka. Even with the presence of the UNN, Nsukka has even refuse to develop. If not for UNN, Nsukka people probably will still be going about naked as in the olden days. The fact that Nnamdi Azikiwe from Anambra state left Anambra and brought the Univ down to Nsukka, is enough for nwa Nsukka like you and other Nsukka people that think the same to be appreciative of Zik's spirit of nationalism. No Nsukka man can do such. Like Abati said, you guys should leave university of Nigeria alone that was unfortunately sited at Nsukka and build your own University of Nsukka, appoint only Nsukka guys as VCs and also take only Nsukka indigenes as staff and students. As for University of Nigeria, there a level playing ground for anybody anywhere to become VC. Period.
My humble question is what is the benefit of a vice chancellor coming from a particular region.
Kindly think deeply and you'll understand. The Nigerian system ensures that people at the helm of affairs have the power to appoint and disappoint.
I am afraid Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo doesn't have a point here. I am so disappointed in his position. What he is agitating for will further lead to disunity amongst the Enugu people. How can you discriminate against Igbo professors in a federal university in the southeast? He is the one promoting discrimination now but when Igbos are discriminated against in other parts of the country, he will start crying wolf. Never knew I’d ever see a day the Chief Nwodo descend this low.
Nigeria is walking backwards. In 1978 after the students riot in which Olatunde Ojo was killed, Obasanjo set up a panel and among the recommendations made was that no person should be appointed a VC in a University located in his state of origin. What happened to that report that was adopted by the FG?
Recommendation doesn't mean the report was approved or acceptable.
I agree with governor Nwodo 💯💪🏿
Nsukka people have a genuine case. Imagine a Hausa community hosting a University without producing the VC for 64 years. If the Nigeria Presidential position is been craved by nativists, then, Nsukka people with competent hands should be given the position. All of you here would also agitate in the same manner.
You are so right
Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo made a bold statement to represent his people today. In fairness, what he is asking for is a good course. No community or indegine will have a sense of belonging knowing fully well they have what it takes to produce V.C but got denied the chance. I believe what he is asking is not too much after hosting the Uni for 64 years.
In the North, no Igbo professor is a vice Chancellor. Why?
Has any northerner appointed VC in the East??
@@moham.279 yes. Northerner has been VC of UNN
Marginalization at the local level, then is the same thing at the federal level! I am tired of this marginalization 🤣🤣😤😤😤
Dr. Nwodo is among if not the Finest of the Igbos. Please ARISE crew, whether tribe and tongues differs or not. The Igbos has been great marginalized. We are first Igbos or from our local tribes before becoming Nigeria. qed
The man sacked all non indigenes working in the enugu state civil service in 1992 when he emerged as civilian governor. Please he's not amongst igbo's finest, he's clannish and too parochial.
This igbos people self I don't understand them. Upon all the problems facing Nigeria, is VC this man is fighting for. Nawa oo
At least we are fighting for each other now. Shebi una dey acuse us of lack of self love
Not in the direction the man is going. Let your complain be constructive no tribalistic @@Buike19415
Not in the direction this man going, let complain be constructive not tribalistic @@Buike19415
The same thing is happening in University of Ibadan. It is a Nigerian thing
But U.I was fighting for the same VC stuff in 2020. It is a.Nigerian problem
I think similar tribal and state-origin mentality was used to prevent Prof. Chukwu from being UNILAG VC... Rufia I remember when some indigenes in SW clamouring that the VC of a university in their community must be a fellow indigene.
Why can't an Nsukka person be a VC ? There is criminal up against any prospective candidate. I was a Unn alumini and an Nsukka indigene. We have what it takes. We have over read and still reading.
This is not an Igbo thing, it happens in University of Ibadan, my Alma mater and everywhere in Nigeria. We need an Nsukka native, who is a competent to be Vice Chancellor of the great UNN. Nnamdi Aziikiwe was from Onitsha in Anambra state while his mother was from Nsukka. His love for his mother made him establish the university in his mother's home town. Things have changed. Nnamdi Aziikiwe was a one Nigerian, i think he will not be happy that Nsukka people are agitating for their own VC
These complainants and whining toxic people have started again. Now the problem is VC. What kind of a people are these people. My goodness. The next thing they will bring up is that no igbo man has become a gateman is aso rock. I have never seen such shameless individual whine and throw tantrums all the time like children.
Don’t mind him/them
Exactly. Very timid pple with inferiority complex!
You just hate the truth, you see nothing wrong with emilokon but Igbos are your problem. Hypocrite
I’ve noticed in all ur comment u always talk about the Igbos.. I think u have a problem mentally. Igbo people matter go kee u one day..
Ayo, good question, ethnicity on display
Rufai i disagree with you in this one Nigerianess. In as much as i dont support this move to make the university an Nssukka issue but no any part of the country today will every allow somebody from another ethnic group to lead an institution in their state. Why is it when it comes to igbo issue one Nigerianess comes in. Go to Ahmadu Bello university and tell them an inyammiri will lead the university and tell them its one Nigeria and see if they wont burn down the country
This is wrong analogy. ABU would have a northern VC irrespective of if his from Xaria or Katsina, or Kebbi, Zamfara, Sokoto etc. UNN VCs have majorly been ibos! Any qualified Igbo man can be VC and should be celebrated. The present VC was born in Nsukka, born,bred,and buttered in Nsukka, speaks no other dialect but Nsukka, married an Nsukka woman, with his family house in Nsukka. Is he not Nsukka enough?
@@FruittionTHub i believe that anybody from the southeast can be VC in any university in the southeast but I am against Rufai saying anybody from any part of Nigeria. So that's why I said I don't support Rufai in that aspect. ABU will only allow northerners just like southwest will also do the same so east too should be strictly on Igbos. When Nigeria is ready to allow anybody from other tribes it should be made in general contest not in Nssuka alone
This man is very Calm, And Intelligent Rufai I need to tell you today to SHUT-UP !!
Shameless man Listen to yourself
Its not Nsukka people. It's their family members business. That man you saw talking calmly has held his community, local government down since Enugu state was created. He is so tribalistic that the local government chairman always comes from his community. As he is talking, he forcefully took poor people's land where he enacted their family building which runs hecters of land. It's only people that don't know them that will listen to such an idiot. Infact, as i am typing this, his son was imposed on Igbo Etiti local government as a local government chairman and he is preparing bim for governorship position in the future. Such a self centered idiot should not be given platform to utter gibberish. If Arise do their investigation well, the professor pushing all these narrative must come from bis village.
Is this write up necessary. What point are u trying to make
@@cynthiachidimma2124 It is obvious you don't understand English Language.
Ruben you didn't have to make a mockery of this with that last statement. That was not necessary at all. Although I am not for dr nwodo position, you should not make a joke out of his legitimate position
Mr. Abati is always petty and petulant.
Am an Igbo person but am totally in disagreement with this plight
Yes but is not an ibo thing , it happens everywhere in Nigeria maybe others are more diplomatic about it. Ordinarily it shouldn’t be ,but that is stark reality of things in Nigeria, the current structure makes everyone to scramble for whatever they get from FG , first to themselves and family, then to LG, state and region. It is even worse in our sociocultural setting. Acrimony and legal battles have ensued after succession of every 1st class king in the SW in the recent time.
You are unfair to Chief Nwodo. Go and say what you are telling him in Northern and Western Nigeria. Let Dr Abati and Mr Rufai not pretend as if they do not know what is happening in Nigeria. There is no part of Nigeria that is not nativist. Chief Nwodo cannot be the one to stop what has been going on for years. Nsukka Vice Chancellor please. They deserve it, let them get it!
Denounce what? Rufai take it easy oo
The Arise team was totally hostile to the Old man, even making a mockery of him, but he remained calm and picked his words carefully like a diplomat. Some other person would have shot back. The fact is both Oseni and Abati are from another region; they won't understand the derision and subjugation the other Igbo heap on the Nsukka man such they willfully deny them their rightful positions. They believe nothing good should go to Nsukka people.-- they (Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia) see them as some kind of second class Igbo, along with Ebonyi people. You need to understand this ageold phenomenon to see from which angle the man is coming. Even if the Nsukka professor comes top by a mile, the assessors would rig them into second place due to that sentiment. But you won't blame the presenters; they don't understand. Just like many tribalists do not want to see an Igbo man in Aso Rock even if he is the saviour that Nigeria needs, so many Igbo cannot accept to have an Nsukka man on top. If it is a question of merit, Nsukka would have produced a VC long ago
The VC shop is not a right of Nsukka indigenes!
This is insane to be honest, for crying out loud this is the university of Nigeria.
My brother go and sleep. Can you say that about Usman Dan fodio University?
Rufai, why do you always inject emotions and sentiments into your analysis? I'm from Nsukka, and also, I'm a graduate of the university of Nigeria Nsukka. If you listen to Dr. Nwodo very well you will understand that yes we're not saying that it's the turn of Nsukka people to produce the next VC of UNN, but just like other people from other zones have been VCs, Nsukka people should also be supported to attain that position. When I was in university, Prof. Ozumba from Anambra was the VC. After his tenure, Prof. Igwe from the same Anambra took over from him. We have former deputy VC academics in the person of Prof. Ogbonna who is from Nsukka who has also contested for this same VC position many times and other professors from the zone who are eminently qualified. Tell me they don't have all it takes to serve the university well. They have used politics within the Southeast region to deprive Nsukka people that position, and all we ask for is a sense of belonging, not that it's our turn. Rufai and Abati, you people misunderstood Nwodo and if you say that Nsukka should not clamour for a position of UNN VC because it is the university of Nigeria, then why do we even have power rotation in Nigeria between the North and South? That's to give every section of this country a sense of belonging, and that is what we ask for.
Don’t mind , they just want to be politically correct. Appointment of University VC in Nigeria is both on Merit and political interest.
These pple you mentioned, aren't they IGBOs? Wld you prefer a northerner?
for unn u guys are opening mouth waaa dey talk but only 2 region rule Nigeria. Abattis pronunciation of that Nsukka dey show hatred from his eyes. go n argu the nation to ballance mentality first
Arise tv nigeria is not one
Alahja Amaka, keep trolling with the names of northerners.
That's what we're saying. UNN is a federal institution. Anybody from any geopolitical zone can be the VC. It's not limited to igbos alone. Stop being sentimental. Igbo man is was our VC in a South Western university before and heads have not rolled.. Why being xenophobic?
Is this stupid politics in UNN continuing? No wonder the school has not grown or been developed both academically and infrastructurally.
I think time has come for the Igbos to look towards journalism in Nigeria to take charge and control over it, because the insult from this good for nothing useless Yerubas brown envelop journalists to the Igbos and Biafrans in general is getting overbearing
Are you miffed because they told your local chief the bitter truth. He is championing the wrong cause and just disgraced himself in that pursuit. I used to respect Dr Okwy Nwodo. But today he dropped the ball real shamefully.
This journalists are dafts
Tribalistic
Nwodo is getting old and getting senile too. Where are his children! They should call their father to order... Recent nativitist calls by him indicate clear senility and a self-destructive nature of his recent actions. University of Nigeria nsukka is not a University of nsukka! Thanks to Reuben and Rufai who schooled Okwesilieze Nwodo as a toddler! on Nationhood and Nationalism. These old men who enjoyed all the largesse of Nigeria are bent on destroying Nigeria in their time should allow Nigeria to breath. Dr Emejuru Alumni of unn
Sense you no get
@@derickwilliams1945na you dey daft fool.. he should go fight for his state university not a federal university
For me I think that what the old man was saying is just for a level play ground because there are many allegations that most of Nsukka sons who show interest in vc job in UNN are always schemed out of the game. He is not saying that It should be given to Nsukka man automatically. So there is no how out of over 200 professors across Nsukka land, at least 2 or 3 people will definitely come out as the best.
It's easy for any idiot to come online and call an educated and accomplished man like Dr. Nwodo senile. The Internet is cheap after all. Dem born you well you go tell that one face to face?!
Rufai,pls forget your call for him to denounce his position. Nigeria as a country is so disjointed. I respect his views and l think he has the right to demand for it. Period!!
I think time has come for the Igbos to look towards journalism in Nigeria to take charge and control over it, because the insult from this good for nothing useless Yerubas brown envelop journalists to the Igbos and Biafrans in general is getting overbearing
Haaa joker, they are brown envelope journalist today because they said something that not suits your narrative. Take the journalism from the yorubas is a pipe dream
Must you insult the Yoruba’s? I am an Igbo man I do not like it when someone insults a whole Ethnic group