Federal Polytechnic Ede Students Cry Out Over Proposed Hike in Tuition Fees, Failure To Inaugurate Elected SU Leaders

Students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have cried out over looming hike in tuition fee without proper consultation of key union leaders in the institution, accusing the management of running one-man show owing to the delay in inauguration of duly elected students’ union leaders.

The students under the aegis of Collective Voice of Federal Polytechnic Ede Students made their displeasure known in release made available to Vreporters on Sunday.

Vreporters authoritatively gathered that, the Students’ Union election was held in October, 2023 electronically which the major stakeholders, the students participated in, but the result was not declared officially by Adepoju Uthman Ayomide led Independent Students Electoral Commission, ISIEC till this moment, a move which unsettles some students of the institution.

The aggrieved students in the release claimed that the delay in inaugurating the duly elected union leaders might not be unconnected with the plan to skyrocket the tuition fee any moment, as the students posit that, the portal to make payment for the tuition and other sundry fees might be open on Monday, 8th of January, 2024, which according to the students will reflect the new fee regime, as planned by the management.

The distressed students made frantic appeal to the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS; the National Association of Polytechnics Students, NAPS; and their subsidiaries to call the management to order in shelving the proposed hike in tuition fee and to swiftly inaugurates the duly elected union leaders.

Vreporters sighted a publication by an online medium in November, 2023 where the management through the institution’s spokesman, Sola Lawal, called for calm among the generality of students urging them not to be used by fifth columnists to destabilize the institution.

Efforts to reach out to Mr Lawal proved abortive as his contact made available to Vreporters is not connecting as at the time of filing this report.