{"id":166750,"date":"2022-03-24T14:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=166750"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:25:24","slug":"oau-vc-soyinka-slams-protesting-ife-indigenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/24\/oau-vc-soyinka-slams-protesting-ife-indigenes\/","title":{"rendered":"OAU VC: Soyinka slams protesting Ife indigenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Laureate, has described the demands of certain Ile Ife residents that the next Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, be a native of the ancient town as &#8220;crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, said this in conversation with Soyinka, a former lecturer at OAU, against the backdrop of incessant kidnappings, ritual killings, and violence that have become the order of the day in Nigeria on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Activities at the elite institution were grounded early in the week as some indigenes of Ile-Ife invaded its campus, armed with charms and other fetish objects, protesting against the appointment of a non-indigene as the institution\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/09\/04\/ooni-of-ife-asks-fg-to-address-agitations-through-dialogue\/\">Vice-Chancellor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the protesting Ife indigenes closed the university\u2019s two major gates as early as 6.00 a.m, thereby preventing vehicular movement from coming into the campus, while those inside the campus were disallowed from leaving.<\/p>\n<p>The protests followed the announcement of Professor of Agricultural Economics, Adebayo Bamire, as the 12th substantive Vice-Chancellor of OAU by the that the University Governing Council led by its Chairman, Chief Owelle Udoji, last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters also beat up workers, particularly the staff of the Security Unit, and vandalised their office at the Main Gate, according to a statement from the University on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>But asked to express his reaction to the agitations that the next Vice Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University must be an indigene of the ancient city, Soyinka lambasted the protesters, saying: \u201cWhy should there be an Ife VC anywhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called on Ife people who do not share the idea of being peddled by the protesters to speak up and be in the forefront of efforts to tackle their ugly campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka said, \u201cAn Ife person wrote me and say, look at these people disgracing us. 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