Authorities at the University of Ilorin on Wednesday condemned the actions of Dr Wale Fasakin, who has continued to parade himself as the president of the institution’s alumni association, despite the election of a new executive committee led by Professor Abdulrazaq Olubusuyi Kilani on August 24, 2024.
The management of the university confirmed that it was fully aware of the change in leadership of the alumni association, now headed by Prof. Abdulrazaq Olubusuyi Kilani.

The university has therefore called on all corporate organisations, government officials, and other well-meaning individuals and stakeholders to cease granting audience to Dr Fasakin or transacting any business with him, as he has ceased to be an official of the association and is no longer in a position to represent it.

Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, the university’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, said: “The tenure of Dr Fasakin came to an end in 2021 through a resolution of the association’s congress.”

He explained that “a caretaker committee was, thereafter, put in place, and it ran the affairs of the association until the August 2024 congress, where the new Kilani-led executive committee was elected.”

DAILY POST reports that the former president was recently reported to have led a group on what they called a ‘courtesy visit’ to an alumna of the university, the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Mrs Kemi Nandap, claiming the visit was by the National Executive Committee of the Unilorin alumni association.

Mr Akogun said: “Even though the university management does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of the alumni association, it can no longer sit back and watch the existing unity in the association be destroyed by needless wrangling.”

The spokesman of the institution noted: “The management appreciates the relevance of the association and its potential to make positive contributions to the overall development of the university, and so it will continue to stridently promote internal peace and harmony within the association.”

Mr Akogun called on Dr Fasakin to stop parading himself as the national president of the Unilorin alumni association, especially with the new executive committee already in place.

Unilorin refutes Dr Wale Fasakin’s claim as institution’s alumni president