OAU: Faculty of Social Science Elects SU Electoral Committee and Petition Members In Highly Controversial Congress

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Following the university release requesting all faculties to hold elections for the position of Students' Union electoral commission and petition, the faculty of Social Science held its election on Friday, May 7th, 2021. 


The highly controversial election or rather congress produced Efem Castro, a student of Sociology, and Fabio, a student of Psychology, as elected members of the electoral commission and electoral petition body respectively. The two winners will represent the faculty of Social Science as members of the electoral commission and petition - a body that will oversee the forthcoming Students' Union election and usher in elected members of the executive, legislative and Judiciary from the election. 


Live observation of the election by ACJ correspondents showed that the election was widely politicized and marred with irregularities. Observation and information acquired revealed that the faculty does not formally have a students' body and a temporary one headed by presidents of all departments was formed last session by the faculty for the purpose of this election and future purposes. 


We learned that in a meeting held by these presidents, the plan was to call a congress for the purpose of primarily discussing and affirming the newly created constitution and if time permits, constitute an electoral committee that will oversee the faculty's election of the students' union electoral committee and petition members. 


However, the congress took a twist when congress members voted to amend and adopt the agenda of the congress -  and prioritise the election of the representatives over anything else. In about one hour, representatives were nominated - confirmed - and voted in as members of the electoral commission and petition body. Our correspondents witnessed all these happened without a formal or prepared process.


Ibidapo Jeremiah, a student of Political Science, told ACJ that the election has no backing. "We don't have an association. We don't have a constitution. Adopting the constitution was supposed to be the business of the day not election. This is a political gimmick that worked out perfectly for them."


According to members of the faculty who we spoke to, majority of the people in the congress were students of Sociology, the department that produced Castro. "A large portion of them are part 1 students," a source said. "They were just clapping and jumping, and it seems like they were following a script," another source said. 


In a conversation with the presidents of Psychology and Economics, they  accused the acting president of the faculty of being influenced by people who have interests. "Our aim was to adopt a constitution and have a settled home before conducting this election," the president of Psychology said. "My department was not even present," the president of economics said.


The election is the first of many that will be held across all faculties in preparation for the students' union elections.

Comments

  1. Unknown10 May 2021 at 09:13

    The comments Above are from the aggrieved members of other factions that want their candidates in but could not Emerge..The election that ushered in the two Faculty Rep was free fair and popular. The congress, the general assembly of student's who is the highest decision making body of the faculty has decided and of such the nomination and subsequent election stand Valid

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