Uzodinma Shuns Owerri Zone, IMSU, Appoints Aka VC |The Source

By Charles Igbo

A new Vice Chancellor has been appointed for the Imo State University, IMSU. He is Professor Peter Aka.

Aka is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Pharmaceutical Department, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

The Professor is a native of Umuebele, Okporo, Orlu LGA, Imo State.

In appointing Professor Aka the VC, Governor Uzodinma shunned Owerri Zone which has been agitating that a Vice Chancellor of Owerri extraction be appointed for the University. Since the inception of the University, decades ago, no Owerri academic has been appointed the Vice Chancellor. Most of them, including the immediate past VC, Professor Adaobi Obi-Obasi, came from Orlu Zone.

During the Zone’s stakeholders’ meeting a couple of months ago, the need for the appointment of an Owerri son/daughter as the VC of IMSU, was one of the highlights of the communique.

With the appointment of a Vice Chancellor from outside the University Community, the Governor also disappointed many in the University Community who were desirous of a Vice Chancellor from amongst one of them.

A Visitation Panel set up on the University by former Governor Emeka Ihedioha, and sustained by Governor Hope Uzodinma, dismissed the situation in the University as rotten and hopeless.

The new Vice Chancellor, along with the Council Members, will have the onerous job of cleaning-up IMSU.