ASUU Leaders Chase Governor of Kogi State From Hospital

Angry leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
allegedly chased away the Governor of Kogi State, Captain
Idris Wada (retd.) from the emergency ward of the Lokoja
General Hospital on Tuesday. Wada had gone to the
hospital to visit their injured colleague, Dr. Ngozi Ilo, and
commiserate with them over the death of their former
President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, in an accident involving his
convoy and an ASUU vehicle on Tuesday.
The ASUU leaders accused him of trying to make a
political gain out of their misfortune.
Lagos State University chapter of the union, Dr. Adekunle
Idris, confirmed that Wada was chased out of the
emergency ward, and said, "We are surprised that a state
governor could resort to telling lies because contrary to the
claim by his spokesperson that he showed care towards our
colleagues, he did not. Somebody that did not stop after his
convoy killed our leader; somebody that did not come to the
hospital until some minutes to 5pm(on Tuesday) after the
accident that happened around 11am could not be said to be
caring."
"That was why we chased him out of the emergency ward
of the hospital and we also prevented him from seeing Prof.
Iyayi's corpse in the mortuary.
"We are not happy with the fact that he came very late to
the hospital and the fact that when he came, his press crew
attempted to take photograph and video record of Dr. Ilo,
who is our national welfare secretary. We stopped them
because that was the height of insensitivity."
"Somebody that could not provide us with an ambulance
cannot be said to be caring. We had to call UNIBEN for an
ambulance that took Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching Hospital
while our colleagues from the Federal University, Lokoja,
with the assistance of the vice-chancellor, gave us the
ambulance that was used to convey the remains of Prof.
Iyayi to Benin."
Culled from CKN Nigeria