Ondo Students Occupy Twitter, Protest Proposed Tuition Increament, Delayed Resumption.

Students of Adekunle Ajasin University in Akungba Akoko Community of Ondo state, yesterday took to the Popular social media platform, twitter. To

call the attention of the People and government of Ondo state to their displeasure over the delayed reopening of the University for students to resume a news Academic Session.

The students, who have been off session since they finished exams on the 7th of January 2018. Occupied twitter with the hastag #LowAAUATuitionCall4Resumption, gathering over 3,000 tweets in about 3 hours of their campaign.

They called for the prompt resumption of their school, while also saying no to the proposed fee increament.

It will be recalled that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had said in several public fora that their school fee will be increased due to paucity of funds in the state coffers.

Authoritative Source in the school management however told Nigerian Cable News that the delayed resumption of the school is due to the failure of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to Appoint a new Governing council for the school, after the tenure of the outgone had finished. Our source added that some pivotal decisions must be taken by the school at the beginning of news sessions like this, and that they can not be taken by the school management without the knowledge and concent of the governing council.

Our source further said that it is quite unprecedented in the history of the school, for it to resume a new session without a governing council.

The Chief Press secretary to the governor however assured in a phone chat with our correspondent that the AAUA governing council will be announced today.