Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described as mischievous a publication attributed to the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Prof Abdalla Adam, in Wednesday with the headline “Obasanjo earns N40,000 as NOUN lecturer.
In a statement, Obasanjo’s media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said the publication, which has generated mixed reactions from the general public and calls from far and near on the elder statesman, is embarrassing and in bad taste as he demands immediate retraction and apology.
Obasanjo said ordinarily, this would have been an unnecessary exercise if it has been the usual shenanigans of the media to sell their newspapers, but the very clear quotation of the Vice-Chancellor on the headline made this clarification imperative and to set the records straight on his engagement with the university.
Obasanjo drew the attention of the Vice-Chancellor to his letter dated April 12, 2018, which was written to the University Registrar, Mr Felix Edoka, when the council offered him a part-time appointment as an instructional/tutorial facilitator and project supervisor in the faculty of arts at the Abeokuta study centre.
He said specifically in paragraph 3 of the letter, President Obasanjo wrote: “I will gladly undertake any of the functions mentioned in paragraph two of your letter pro bono and I hope that the functions will be flexible enough to accommodate my rather tight schedule.”
The former President affirmed that he has not received any dime either as salaries or otherwise from the university and not planning for such now or forever while insisting on a retraction.
In a reaction, NOUN Media Director, Ibrahim Sheme, admitted that the Vice Chancellor actually said at a press conference on Tuesday that N40,000 was offered to Obasanjo as a facilitator, but never said the former President accepted the offer, as he accused the media of quoting the V.C. out of context.
NOUN said it has never paid former President Obasanjo any kobo.
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