The Vice-Chancellor of Kaduna State University, Professor Abdullahi Musa, has explained that the endorsement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a second term by more than 600 senior academics from public universities across Northern Nigeria followed an assessment of data on his administration’s performance.
Musa said the academics reviewed information on developments in sectors including education, infrastructure, investment and agriculture before making their recommendation.
He spoke on Trust TV’s Daily Politics on Tuesday.
According to the vice-chancellor, the gathering was not primarily convened to endorse Tinubu conditionally, but to provide a platform for academics to analyse available data and make recommendations based on their findings.
“What the meeting indicated is that it is an avenue whereby academics will come together to identify specific data, analyse the data, and then provide an analysis using systematic methodology, and recommend the way forward,” Musa said.
He said various forms of sectoral data were presented during the meeting, including information on infrastructure, education and agriculture.
“During the meeting, a lot of data was presented, including issues related to sectoral data, like infrastructural development, investment in education, and agriculture, to just mention a few,” he said.
Musa pointed to what he described as the Federal Government’s investment in education, saying the benefits could be seen at Kaduna State University.
“If you look at development in education, the Bola Tinubu administration has expended billions of naira in support of education, and if you look at my university alone, our students receive over N1 billion in support,” the VC said.
He also cited infrastructural interventions at the university as part of the factors considered by the academics.
“In terms of infrastructural development in education, Kaduna State University has received enormous amount of support from TETFund and from the National Sports Commission. To mention just a few,” he added.
The endorsement has attracted criticism, with the African Democratic Congress, ADC, calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to engage the academics as returning officers in the 2027 election.
Responding to questions about whether the views of the 600 academics could be taken as representative of all lecturers in the North, Musa said individual academics remained free to hold different positions.
“600 lecturers have their voices individually and collectively. If any person has his own worries that is contrary to the voices of the 600 lecturers that are pres
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